Editorial Policy

Stackmoves publishes content about something simple: helping people move without trashing a forest or losing a security deposit. The articles, guides, and city pages on this site exist to make a frustrating week of someone’s life less frustrating. This page explains how we research what we write, who reviews it, and what we do when we get something wrong.

What we publish

Most of our content fits into one of five buckets:

• Moving guides for specific cities and neighborhoods we serve, from Manhattan to Phoenix to Seattle.
• Packing tips for awkward items, fragile things, and the boxes nobody wants to deal with (looking at you, garage tools).
• Cost guides that lay out what a move actually runs, where the surprise charges hide, and how renting reusable bins compares to buying cardboard.
• Sustainability comparisons, mostly cardboard versus plastic and the carbon and waste math behind each.
• Customer FAQs about how our rental works, what fits in a bin, and what we do with bins after a move.

Our audience is split between two groups. Households relocating across town or across the country. And offices, building managers, and corporate move coordinators handling larger jobs. We write for both, in plain language, with the assumption that nobody reads a moving blog for fun.

Who writes our content

The drafts come from our internal content team. They are not professional movers, but they are not generalists either. The writers we hire have covered logistics, home services, sustainability, or e-commerce for at least three years. Before they draft anything, they read our internal operations notes and talk to the people running our delivery routes.

For technical posts — anything about packing fragile items, weight limits, building access rules, or carbon math — we bring in outside voices. That includes professional movers we partner with in the cities we serve, building managers who deal with elevator reservations every week, and sustainability researchers when we are making claims about plastic recycling or emissions. When an outside contributor shapes a post, their name and credentials sit at the top of the page.

How we research

Every article starts with a question we have actually heard from a customer. We pull those questions from our support email, our intake calls, our Google reviews, and our partner network. If nobody is asking the question, we are not writing the answer.

Once we have the question, the research draws from a mix of sources:

• Our own operations data. How long a typical residential move takes in each city we serve. How many bins a one-bedroom apartment usually needs. Where we have seen damage claims spike (rooftop walk-ups in summer, mostly).
• Industry data from the American Moving and Storage Association, the U.S. Census on relocation trends, and Bureau of Transportation Statistics filings.
• Federal and state environmental data. For sustainability claims, that means the EPA’s Advancing Sustainable Materials Management report, peer-reviewed life-cycle assessments, and the recycling certifications on the polypropylene we use to make our bins.
• City and county regulations on moving permits, parking suspensions, and building access. These vary block by block in dense cities, and we cite the city’s own page rather than a summary on someone else’s blog.

If a number cannot be verified against a primary source or our own operations log, the number does not go on the page.

Review process

Drafts go to an internal editor first. The editor reads against an outline and a checklist that covers accuracy, voice, link integrity, and whether the page actually helps the reader do the thing it promises.

Posts that touch sustainability claims get a second review by someone on our operations side who knows the bin manufacturing and recycling chain firsthand. Posts about a specific city get reviewed by whoever runs that route. Posts about commercial moves get checked against our corporate account playbook before they go live.

Nothing publishes until at least two people have read it end to end and signed off.

Sustainability claims

This deserves its own section because sustainability is the easiest thing to overclaim in our category, and we are determined not to.

Our bins are made from polypropylene plastic. We reuse each bin until it is too damaged to safely carry a customer’s belongings, which usually means several hundred trips. When a bin retires, it goes to a polypropylene reclaimer we have audited and named on our Sustainability page.

When we publish a comparison with cardboard, we cite the underlying life-cycle assessment by name and link, not a press release. When we publish a carbon figure, we show the calculation method — bin trips per lifetime, transport distance, manufacturing emissions per pound, recycled content percentage — so a reader who wants to check our math can. We have rewritten older sustainability posts as the EPA’s data has updated, and we will keep doing that.

Three things we will not say: that our bins are “carbon negative,” that they are “compostable,” or that any single move is “zero waste.” None of those statements would survive the math.

Corrections policy

When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and we say what we fixed. Material corrections — anything that changes a fact, a number, a recommendation, or a sustainability claim — get a dated note at the top of the article describing what changed. We do not silently rewrite history.

Smaller fixes (typos, broken links, a city name spelled wrong) get fixed without a note.

If you spot something wrong, email hello@stackmoves.com with the article URL and the issue. We reply within five business days. If you are right, we update the page. If we think the original was correct, we explain why.

Update cadence

The site gets a full content review twice a year. Beyond that:

• City pages get reviewed when our service in that city changes, when a city’s moving permit rules change, or once a year — whichever comes first.
• Sustainability posts get reviewed every time the EPA’s Sustainable Materials Management data updates, or when our supply chain changes.
• Cost guides get reviewed every six months, because gas prices, labor rates, and our own pricing all move.
• Packing and how-to posts get reviewed annually.

The “Last reviewed” date on each article tells you exactly when an editor last read it. If a page lacks one, assume it is due.

Talk to us

Questions, corrections, or topics you want us to cover go to hello@stackmoves.com or 1-833-782-2568. We answer every message. We do not respond with templates.

If a sustainability claim on this site looks off to you, or a city page is missing something a local would know, we want the note. Several of our better edits came from readers who move for a living or live on the block we are writing about.

Stack Venture Partners LLC operates Stackmoves. Our editorial decisions are independent of our partnerships and advertising. If that ever changes, the change will appear on this page.