Moving follies: The Epilogue

Well, Our things arrived. Delivered by a truck, even though we were charged sea-shipping in our invoice. Gotcha # 1, but there is little one can do after the household leaves home.

The nice english lad that delivered the household had the second hint: "the way we do it is by counting the number of items on the shipping list" The shiping list is the one that the people who picked up the goods signed with you. It is pointless to try to match the items in the list with the real items.

This is the key: the pick-up guys are not there to be nice or help you. They are there to list every single box into a book box (which is billed at a higher price than other types of boxes)

And also to pack as fast as possible, whether you are paying them or not. Given the way they packed our stuff, it is a miracle that half of the stuff did not break. They simply threw a lot of household inside boxes, period.

So if we were to do this again, we would have at least 2 or 3 people looking over the shoulder of these guys. They are not there to serve you but to serve the shipping company.

BTW, our "shipping" company was Echo Transworld. They are based out of New York City.

Never use them. We have plenty of pictures to document their work.