Pierce, West Palm Beach, Deerfield Beach and Ft. Myers, and Naples. Extraordinary care goes into the processing and delivery of perishable parcels such as gift fruit. Deliveries are made to postal centers throughout the country and delivered expeditiously by the U.S. Postal Service to their final destination, which is usually located within a 35-mile radius. Florida's gift fruit shippers provide guarantees on all shipments, and ship everywhere in the United States and Canada.
Many shippers also ship duty-free packages to international locations.
Many shippers also have their own websites that provide information on various gift fruit packages, pricing and placing orders. Its mission is to be the world leader in the transportation and distribution of perishable products, resulting in the highest quality, most efficient and lowest cost to the members for those services. There are 134 members of the association and they represent approximately 96 percent of the gift fruit industry. Most are family owned and operated shipping businesses. The association owns a fleet of 40 trailers that are used to pick up gift fruit packages from shippers throughout the state of Florida.