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We have just gone through this with Bournes who were fantastic. It took three guys 2 days to pack and load our stuff onto a lorry. They literally did all the packing but we had done a major declutter and sent boxes of stuff we didn't want to ship to friends and family plus sold lots of other items. Still we took up a 20ft container and they did do a great job. However, despite all the effort I thought we had made we did still end up several really "useful" items for here. My personal favourites being "1001 walks around Great Britain" (very useful in Texas!) and no less than 4 multi-plug extension leads!!

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We are going with a company called Galleon who my company have engaged. Its air freight only so we can't take much furniture (we are only taking a small rose stand and a crib my dad made). They want to pack our stuff on 11th November to arrive before 25th November as we requested (the day we move into our new house in texas from our hotel). So that's 14 days for basically air freighted "personal items".
Just so you know this is pictures, crockery, cutlery, my guitars (lol), ornaments etc.

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I just did exactly this through Bournes. they were great. They came in, 2 days to pack a 4 bed house with a lot of stuff (they did pull a third person to help on day 2). All loaded onto the container, sent to Southampton and shipped out. Door to door 4 weeks and 4 days. I can't rate Bournes enough. the guys were brilliant

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Where is the second "door"? :unsure:

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Door 1 - UK.Door 2 - North Carolina US.Just an expression

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I realise it was just an expression, but without knowing whether you had moved to Portland, Maine or Portland, Oregon, or somewhere in between, it was impossible to know whether your time line was remarkably good, or merely fairly average. :unsure:

I would have said that your 4.4 weeks is pretty good, but not stunning.