Denver business wants to brighten your day with personal care packages

DENVER — Summertime is a motive to rejoice. And this 12 months, it comes because the world is on the lookout for one thing constructive. You are in good firm with Denver-based Ship Sunshine, which sends care packages to individuals around the globe.

Founder Anna Costello found years in the past that she had a expertise for crafting reward packing containers for any event.

“In Could, we donated 75 reward packing containers to lecturers,” she mentioned.

The idea of Ship Sunshine stems from a phenomenal however grueling mountain she summitted with associates in Bali.

“I bear in mind this sense when the solar rose and everyone’s spirits instantly lifted,” mentioned Costello. “I stored pondering ‘Oh my gosh, we’ve to determine a option to bottle this sense.’”

Now, she runs a workforce thoughtfully designing care packages with locally-sourced and women-owned knick knacks, hand-picked to make somebody smile.

Ship Sunshine sends customized care packages around the globe

“I feel we have shipped to 70 totally different nations now, and each state within the U.S,” mentioned Costello. “We have been having a difficulty with Delaware. We hadn’t shipped any sunshine to Delaware till about 2 years in the past!”

They accommodate messages of congratulations, thank yous, consumer appreciations, and homecomings.

“We have made this design that simply says ‘Sending you slightly sunshine,’” she mentioned. “We’ll do state and metropolis to point out the place it is coming from, the place it should.”

They will even customise colours, shapes, and themes so your particular supply has a private contact.

“Our precedence is clearly ensuring issues arrive secure and sound,” mentioned Costello. “However, we additionally need them to look lovely and have this sense of shock and delight when any individual opens it. They do not know they’re receiving a bodily bundle. However they get one thing that is simply imagined to make them pleased.”

It is a feeling she’s assured will ultimately come again round to the sender, too.

“It is actually extra than simply stuff in a field,” she mentioned. “We’re actually making an attempt to create an expertise and assist our communities as effectively.”