OBX Shipping Center, Inc. sits on Airstrip Road in Kill Devil Hills, just back from the main Beach Road and Croatan Highway corridor that runs through the northern Outer Banks. It's the kind of practical stop a beach town still needs alongside the surf shops and pancake houses — a place to ship a package out, pick up supplies to pack one, or handle a business errand that doesn't have anywhere else to go on a trip built around the ocean.
That's genuinely useful for a stretch of coast built almost entirely around week-long house rentals: shipping something home instead of hauling it back in the car, sending a package ahead of a trip, or squaring away paperwork for a small business operating out of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, or Nags Head. It keeps a shorter Saturday schedule and stays closed on Sunday, which is common for this kind of business here — worth a quick call if you're timing a visit around either end of the day, especially outside peak summer season.
- Monday–Friday: 8:30 am–5:30 pm
- Saturday: 8:30 am–12:30 pm
- Closed Sunday