Recommendations, Shipping London to Houston
Nov 6th 2013, 9:41 am
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Recommendations, Shipping London to Houston
Hi,
I am moving from London to Houston and would like to get some recommendations on shipping company. I am not carrying any furniture, simply about 10 boxes and 2 desktop computers.
I have a quote from 1st move international and was wondering who else will be good choice?
I am a bit worried about the computer. Do these companies pack up the computer properly?
Cheers
I am moving from London to Houston and would like to get some recommendations on shipping company. I am not carrying any furniture, simply about 10 boxes and 2 desktop computers.
I have a quote from 1st move international and was wondering who else will be good choice?
I am a bit worried about the computer. Do these companies pack up the computer properly?
Cheers
Nov 6th 2013, 4:13 pm
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Re: Recommendations, Shipping London to Houston
Hi there.
We just had 25 boxes (some tiny, some large) shipped by excess baggage, from the UK to the west coast of the us. Everything arrived safe and sound. Communication was not great from the company I have to say, but they were cheap and everything got here on time. It took almost two and a half months by sea.
We packed a laptop which was fine when removed and a large 27 inch monitor which we paid £50 to have them create it up for us, as well as original boxes from when we bought it. It's arrived fine.
Remember, who ever you ship it with is probably only the first company that will be involved. We had a separate company do our customs work in LA and then a separate company shipped it up to northern California. My point I'd that by the time you get to the third company, it's definitely just another load of boxes... They dropped a couple of delicate ones whilst we were unloading. Thankfully nothing broke that we know of yet. But each box will be handled by ten or more different movers, and some drops will occur. So box, wrap and double wrap delicates.
Good luck with the move
We just had 25 boxes (some tiny, some large) shipped by excess baggage, from the UK to the west coast of the us. Everything arrived safe and sound. Communication was not great from the company I have to say, but they were cheap and everything got here on time. It took almost two and a half months by sea.
We packed a laptop which was fine when removed and a large 27 inch monitor which we paid £50 to have them create it up for us, as well as original boxes from when we bought it. It's arrived fine.
Remember, who ever you ship it with is probably only the first company that will be involved. We had a separate company do our customs work in LA and then a separate company shipped it up to northern California. My point I'd that by the time you get to the third company, it's definitely just another load of boxes... They dropped a couple of delicate ones whilst we were unloading. Thankfully nothing broke that we know of yet. But each box will be handled by ten or more different movers, and some drops will occur. So box, wrap and double wrap delicates.
Good luck with the move
Nov 16th 2013, 3:38 pm
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Re: Recommendations, Shipping London to Houston
Hi there.
We just had 25 boxes (some tiny, some large) shipped by excess baggage, from the UK to the west coast of the us. Everything arrived safe and sound. Communication was not great from the company I have to say, but they were cheap and everything got here on time. It took almost two and a half months by sea.
We packed a laptop which was fine when removed and a large 27 inch monitor which we paid £50 to have them create it up for us, as well as original boxes from when we bought it. It's arrived fine.
Remember, who ever you ship it with is probably only the first company that will be involved. We had a separate company do our customs work in LA and then a separate company shipped it up to northern California. My point I'd that by the time you get to the third company, it's definitely just another load of boxes... They dropped a couple of delicate ones whilst we were unloading. Thankfully nothing broke that we know of yet. But each box will be handled by ten or more different movers, and some drops will occur. So box, wrap and double wrap delicates.
Good luck with the move
We just had 25 boxes (some tiny, some large) shipped by excess baggage, from the UK to the west coast of the us. Everything arrived safe and sound. Communication was not great from the company I have to say, but they were cheap and everything got here on time. It took almost two and a half months by sea.
We packed a laptop which was fine when removed and a large 27 inch monitor which we paid £50 to have them create it up for us, as well as original boxes from when we bought it. It's arrived fine.
Remember, who ever you ship it with is probably only the first company that will be involved. We had a separate company do our customs work in LA and then a separate company shipped it up to northern California. My point I'd that by the time you get to the third company, it's definitely just another load of boxes... They dropped a couple of delicate ones whilst we were unloading. Thankfully nothing broke that we know of yet. But each box will be handled by ten or more different movers, and some drops will occur. So box, wrap and double wrap delicates.
Good luck with the move
Nov 16th 2013, 5:58 pm
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Re: Recommendations, Shipping London to Houston
Can I ask which companies you used? I am in exactly the same situation - moving to Southern CA in August 2014 so I'm trying to work backwards to figure when and how much to budget roughly...I'm not looking to take much, mostly clothes, some paintings and some antique crockery
They charge by volume, so big light cheap things... plan to rebuy.
For valuables, and paintings, I would seriously suggest you look for a specialist moving company, since as I said before, the guys dropping off our stuff, did literally just that. Drop it. Bang it. And that was in front of us-good knows how they treated the boxes out of sight! But... Everything was fine- we packed carefully and it all seems OK.
They offered a creating service for my tv- and you might want to think about that for paintings or fragile items. This crate was awesome- very strong. But make sure did is packed inside, since all the weight added by the crate makes it more droppable!
Good luck with the move. Feel free to shoot me any more questions. It's blue skies, sunny and tee-shirt weather here in California !
Oh, and it took 12 weeks for us stuff to arrive.
