‘Ship Snow, Yo’ Is Sending Bigger and Better Snow Packages to Your Friends 
 
 Packing up our weather problems, this time in more than just water bottles. 
 
 Experimenting with new shipping techniques! A photo posted by Ship Snow Yo (Kyle Waring) (@shipsnowyo) on Feb 8, 2015 at 7:46am PST 
 
 The sidewalks are too narrow, the T is too slow, and appreciation for the Winterfell that Boston has become is quickly wearing off. So one guy came up with a simple answer: take the snow, and put it someplace else. That’s the general idea of ‘Ship Snow, Yo,’ a startup created by Kyle Waring—ship the snow out of the Northeast, one water bottle at a time. 
 
 Well, the water bottles are the original concept. Ship Snow, Yo is exporting bits of Boston’s historic snow inside 16.9 ounces of plastic—which Waring freezes in dry ice—to friends, family and enemies in warm, sunny quarters for one payment of $19.99. 
 
 “The original product was a joke to really just make light of a bad situation with us just getting dumped on up here,” Waring tells Boston. “We ran a couple of tests to start to see if the snow would actually arrive.” 
 
 The snow is packed and shipped using two-day shipping, hoping that the snow will arrive at its destination without melting. So far, 98 water bottles have been shipped—that’s 670,464 snowflakes, according to Ship Snow, Yo’s website. 
 
 In the next few days, however, he plans to launch a new model. 
 
 “I’m moving away from driving dry ice,” says Waring. “I’m using Styrofoam and then wrapping the snow in tinfoil.” 
 
 But there’s more! He’ll also be sending a pound and a half at a time, costing between $80 and $100. But it’s more likely to arrive just as fluffy and annoying as it left. 
 
 Mind that Waring doesn’t make any guarantees. His website warns that your snow might arrive as water, and there’s no refund policy after snow has shipped—a fool proof method for making sure it stays out of Boston. 
 
 But those who receive the snow, Waring says, are generally happy to see it. Who would have thought? 
 
 “They understand that we want to clean up Boston, so even if it does arrive as water, they get a kick out of it,” says Waring. 
 
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 We hand pack natural snow into thick Styrofoam coolers. Each box is sealed with heavy duty packing tape and placed into a corrugated outer shell. Once packed, we'll ship directly to you, your family, or friends via FedEx Express. 
 
 All of our shipments are sent Overnight. 
 
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 It’s both a why-didn’t-I-think-of-this and wait-people-really-pay-for-that business plan. This all started when Waring and his wife, like so many of us, were shoveling their yard in Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Waring joked about sending the snow to friends and family. The joke soon turned into a legitimate business when Waring launched ShipSnowYo.com, a site that claims to use “snow as a service.” 
 
 The service is shipping snow to friends and family members in warmer climates, the very people who, when you send pictures of snow tunnels and selfies with your eyelashes covered in snow, reply with pictures of their toes in the sand. 
 
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 At first, many of the 112 recipients of snow shipments received 16.9-ounce water bottles filled, not with “historic Boston snow” from winter storm Neptune, but with “historic water” because the snow melted in transit. (Actually, the snow is technically from Waring’s home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, not Boston). Nonetheless, Waring warned melting could happen on the website, but says he's more prepared this time. 
 
 Instead of just sending water bottles, which he sold for $19.99, Waring launched a new product today: 6 pounds of snow for “only $89” (marked down from $99). The price includes shipping, and Waring says he can get the snow to any destination in the U.S. in 20 hours. He still expects the snow to melt, but this time, has packaged it differently. 
 
 “I put the snow in a plastic bag, and put that in tinfoil,” Waring said. “Then I put that package in an insulated container that’s an inch and a half thick, and ship it overnight. It’s sealed tight in Omaha steaks packaging.” 
 
 Waring says even if the snow melts a little by the time it reaches its destination, which it will, the package can still make 10-15 solid snowballs. 
 
 And, yes, people are paying $89 for this. Waring sold out of the new product in 24 hours — all four of them. He prepared 10 packages for the Monday release and expects to sell out just as quickly. 
 
 “It seems to be corporations paying for the $90 product as a funny gesture, where the $20 one is regular consumers,” he said. 
 
 He’s also launching a 10-pound package for $119 today, and there’s no word on who the typical clientele for this price y package might be. 
 
 Waring has a full-time job at the GSN Games in Boston, so the snow shipping has been a side project. He plans to keep shipping as long as there’s snow and as long as people will pay for it. 
 
 “At this rate, it’s going to be July until the snow melts,” he said. “But I’ve thought about taking this idea and running with it for other seasonal items. Maybe I’ll ship some fall foliage.”
– In what must be one of the greatest sales feats on record, a Massachusetts man has managed to actually sell some of the absurd amount of snow that has fallen on the state this winter. Manchester-by-the-Sea resident Kyle Waring tells Boston.com that he got the idea for ShipSnowYo.com while shoveling the stuff, and he's now sold more than 100 16.9-ounce bottles of genuine Massachusetts snow for $19.99. Though the snow was treated with dry ice to lower its temp prior to shipping, many of the bottles melted long before they reached buyers around the country. But Waring says he is now selling 6-pound packages in insulated containers for $89, which will reach the customer in 20 hours, with enough snow remaining to make up to 15 snowballs. So who's buying the stuff? Waring says it "seems to be corporations paying for the $90 product as a funny gesture, where the $20 one is regular consumers." He says there have been no complaints about snow melting in transit. "They understand that we want to clean up Boston, so even if it does arrive as water, they get a kick out of it," he told Boston magazine earlier this month. His website stresses: "We will not ship snow to any states in the Northeast! We're in the business of expunging snow!" (The site's occasionally snarky tone—"Trapped in our tiny ass apartments and dealing with 3 hour long commutes ... we desperately need your help getting this snow out of our city!"—isn't dissimilar from that of another notorious mail-order site.)