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Shipping When we first decided to move from San Francisco to Sydney, I had a vague idea that we would be shipping our household goods and personal effects by sea but I hadn't the faintest clue about which companies were good and how to generally go about it. Oodles of Internet research followed. There are three options you have: Full-service companies will handle everything for you starting with packing your household all the way through unpacking it at the other end.

Note that they do take money from these companies so info@sydneyforex unclear how unbiased their recommendations are - they claim that the financing doesn't affect how they rate and review moving companies. We contacted about 5 such full-service companies. Some of them immediately scheduled an on-site pre-move survey with us, while a couple others just emailed info@sydneyforex quotes after asking us for our estimate of how big our shipment would be.

We dropped the ones that emailed us quotes without surveys because it was quite clear they weren't the full-service they were claiming to be, and if this was their level of service at the offset even prior to a sale, it pointed to worse service later. The pre-move surveys consisted of an agent coming to your house and doing a general walk-through of the place, eyeing everything you had and coming up with a very rough estimate of the weight and size of your shipment, and a quote to go alongwith.

For our 1BR apartment about sq ft 90 m2 in size, we had wide-ranging estimates from all 3 companies, from one saying it was cu ft and lb to cu ft and lb. My personal info@sydneyforex was that we had about cu ft weighing around lb. Given how small our shipment was, we decided to dig into shipping our stuff ourselves rather than using full-service.

This led us to UPakWeShip. Info@sydneyforex have info@sydneyforex options depending on the size of your shipment. They also don't handle the quarantine charges which depend on the number of boxes and the things you declare to be shipping - food, drugs, medicines, animal and plant-derived goods, wood etc receive extra scrutiny at your expense. Their quote includes everything else including port charges and other charges listed on their websiteonce you've delivered the shipment to their warehouse.

Note that they are not full-service shippers and they seem to keep costs low by providing you curt but quick service. We didn't expect any niceties or extra service from them and we didn't get any. We also asked them to recommend a professional packing company and they recommended a local Hayward, CA company called SafePak. We didn't investigate shipping via FedEx, UPS or USPS as we presumed that those would be prohibitively expensive for a move of our size.

We contacted both the companies, told them we wanted to go with them. They emailed us their contract info@sydneyforex which we looked over carefully, signed and then sent back to them.

We faxed them over, but scanning and emailing is fine too. The SafePak folks came in on schedule and did a professional job packing everything we had into about 41 boxes. The gross shipment size came out to cu ft, very close to our and their estimate. The only things I would warn about with professional packers are: There will be multiple people who show up, each person will take a room and start packing.

Make sure you tell them exactly what doesn't need to be packed. I would advise inventorying all your items beforehand because once they're there, you can't really keep an eye on everything that's going on. Make sure to make very detailed inventories of all the medicines, food items, info@sydneyforex goods, plant and animal-derived goods, wooden goods before they come. These lists will be needed when you fill in the info@sydneyforex and quarantine declaration which is taken very seriously in Australia.

Ask them to pack such restricted import items in as few boxes as possible and to mark them out so you can point them to the customs officers at the other end. Inspections are charged by box and so the fewer boxes you need to have opened and inspected, the less it'll cost you.

We didn't do this and so had to info@sydneyforex in the forms by memory. I'm not sure how much of a problem that's going to be once we're there, but it'll be reported back on this info@sydneyforex. Once the packers had packed everything, they inventoried the boxes with a roughish description of what info@sydneyforex in each box. Descriptions would be of the sort: This should be good enough except for the restricted import items listed on the customs form.

After the inventory, they loaded the items up in their truck and drove them off to their warehouse. It took them three days to turn the shipment around. Turning around the shipment involves crating or palletizing the shipment, and coming up with precise weight and size numbers.

They released the shipment to UPakWeShip which provided their own invoice once they'd picked up the shipment. That is the story until now. I will continue to report our experience going forward. Posted by The Weird Indian at.