Be aware when packing your container..
Oct 14th 2005 | 6:01 pm
#16
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From: Angle vale Sth Australia
Re: Be aware when packing your container..
Originally Posted by spalen
So the trick is - when you label a Box as "Christmass Decorations' you need two boxes.
Inventory:
Box 1 = Christmass Decorations, Excluding Pine Cones.
Box 2 = Christmass Decorations, Including Pine Cones. (Empty)
And inside Box 2 you put a copy of the Aqis list of exclusions with ' You Dumb Asses I can read you know " written on it. And perhaps a sand-sculpture toy for good measure, or a bit of untreated pine might be nice, or perhaps even a hamster cage with the door ajar and signs of a hamster having been recently in residence. they'll shut the port down and declare a hamster exclusion zone for 50 miles around. Even better... put photo's of hamsters in the box too, a male hamster and a female hamster, and make the female hamster a pregnant one.
Inventory:
Box 1 = Christmass Decorations, Excluding Pine Cones.
Box 2 = Christmass Decorations, Including Pine Cones. (Empty)
And inside Box 2 you put a copy of the Aqis list of exclusions with ' You Dumb Asses I can read you know " written on it. And perhaps a sand-sculpture toy for good measure, or a bit of untreated pine might be nice, or perhaps even a hamster cage with the door ajar and signs of a hamster having been recently in residence. they'll shut the port down and declare a hamster exclusion zone for 50 miles around. Even better... put photo's of hamsters in the box too, a male hamster and a female hamster, and make the female hamster a pregnant one.
its people like you they put the boot in, 
..........mm 
Oct 15th 2005 | 12:46 am
#17
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From: Tapping (Perth)
Re: Be aware when packing your container..
If you colour-code things, just remember that some people are colour blind.
And if you write on post-it notes, bear in mind that one of your movers/packers may be unable to read! I kid you not: when we moved into this house 10 years ago, I had all my boxes labelled (bedroom 1, bedroom 2, etc).
Then I stuck post-it notes on the doors of the rooms as well (again: bedroom 1, bedroom 2).
Then stood around in the living room watching the movers (from a very large, well-known, international firm) carry in all the boxes. One of the movers would come up to me and ask "Where does this one go?" And I'd have a look at what I'd written on the box (in large black felt-tip pen) and tell him. But I guess I wasn't always around when he came through with a box.
So, in the weeks afterwards, as I worked my way round the rooms and boxes, I would find a box for bedroom 3 in the garage, and a box for the garage in the study and so on.
When I'd packed all the boxes I'd thought I was so clever and well-organised to have them all labelled - but I hadn't reckoned on a mover who couldn't read
Gina
And if you write on post-it notes, bear in mind that one of your movers/packers may be unable to read! I kid you not: when we moved into this house 10 years ago, I had all my boxes labelled (bedroom 1, bedroom 2, etc).
Then I stuck post-it notes on the doors of the rooms as well (again: bedroom 1, bedroom 2).
Then stood around in the living room watching the movers (from a very large, well-known, international firm) carry in all the boxes. One of the movers would come up to me and ask "Where does this one go?" And I'd have a look at what I'd written on the box (in large black felt-tip pen) and tell him. But I guess I wasn't always around when he came through with a box.
So, in the weeks afterwards, as I worked my way round the rooms and boxes, I would find a box for bedroom 3 in the garage, and a box for the garage in the study and so on.
When I'd packed all the boxes I'd thought I was so clever and well-organised to have them all labelled - but I hadn't reckoned on a mover who couldn't read
Gina
Oct 15th 2005 | 10:02 am
#18
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Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 5,353
From: Angle vale Sth Australia
Re: Be aware when packing your container..
Originally Posted by GinaUK
If you colour-code things, just remember that some people are colour blind.
And if you write on post-it notes, bear in mind that one of your movers/packers may be unable to read! I kid you not: when we moved into this house 10 years ago, I had all my boxes labelled (bedroom 1, bedroom 2, etc).
Then I stuck post-it notes on the doors of the rooms as well (again: bedroom 1, bedroom 2).
Then stood around in the living room watching the movers (from a very large, well-known, international firm) carry in all the boxes. One of the movers would come up to me and ask "Where does this one go?" And I'd have a look at what I'd written on the box (in large black felt-tip pen) and tell him. But I guess I wasn't always around when he came through with a box.
So, in the weeks afterwards, as I worked my way round the rooms and boxes, I would find a box for bedroom 3 in the garage, and a box for the garage in the study and so on.
When I'd packed all the boxes I'd thought I was so clever and well-organised to have them all labelled - but I hadn't reckoned on a mover who couldn't read
Gina
And if you write on post-it notes, bear in mind that one of your movers/packers may be unable to read! I kid you not: when we moved into this house 10 years ago, I had all my boxes labelled (bedroom 1, bedroom 2, etc).
Then I stuck post-it notes on the doors of the rooms as well (again: bedroom 1, bedroom 2).
Then stood around in the living room watching the movers (from a very large, well-known, international firm) carry in all the boxes. One of the movers would come up to me and ask "Where does this one go?" And I'd have a look at what I'd written on the box (in large black felt-tip pen) and tell him. But I guess I wasn't always around when he came through with a box.
So, in the weeks afterwards, as I worked my way round the rooms and boxes, I would find a box for bedroom 3 in the garage, and a box for the garage in the study and so on.
When I'd packed all the boxes I'd thought I was so clever and well-organised to have them all labelled - but I hadn't reckoned on a mover who couldn't read
Gina
i guess they would have been bank managers. If they had stayed at school .......................mm
Oct 15th 2005 | 11:24 am
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From: Somerly, Perth
Re: Be aware when packing your container..
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
:scared: My daughter has over 60 beanie babies - she will be devastated if they got confiscated (come to think of it, so will I at £4 minimum a pop!!)
I'm sure they will be used to them as a lot of people will have brought them over
Oct 15th 2005 | 7:49 pm
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From: Gold Coast
Re: Be aware when packing your container..
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
:scared: My daughter has over 60 beanie babies - she will be devastated if they got confiscated (come to think of it, so will I at £4 minimum a pop!!)
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...and+filled+toy
Last edited by paulf; Oct 15th 2005 at 7:53 pm.
