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First off, Thanks to everybody who took the time to reply!
I see I managed to not include some basic info: The boxes need to go
from Oregon to New York. The recipient has a loading dock/pallet
handling "stuff" (jacks, forklift, etc), but as I noted before, I don't :-/
As many people suggested checking out PODs, I checked their website and
their automated tool says they won't deliver to the zipcode of the
recipient and suggested using upack (https://www.upack.com/) instead.
It also sounds like I need to get a better handle on the weight/volume
in order to even ask the right questions to the various shipping vendors
and will go work on that next.
Thanks again,
rkg
(Richard George)
P.S. As with a lot of other people around here, I've had it with
Portland (diatribe omitted to keep from threadjacking myself), and
actually need to have a number of repairs done to our house before
putting it on the market. To get some stuff out of the way of where the
work needs to get done I was thinking of using a PODs to store some of
our household goods while the work was being done. Thanks to Tim for
mentioning water issues/I'll look into that in the fine print (it rains
a fair amount here, and...).
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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets
shipped... help?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:52:10 -0400
From: George P. Dausch IV <GPD4@juno.com>
To: Richard George <rkg@teleport.com>
From where to where?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Richard George <rkg@teleport.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm dealing with my dad's estate and have a large quantity of stuff
> (tools - ob. shop content) to send across country to get auctioned
> off. I was originally looking at using normal shipping methods (boxes
> sent at a discount via pirate ship), but it turns out the house is
> confident they can deal with far more "stuff" than I had originally
> envisioned (would be 40 or so of those home depot small and medium
> moving boxes,a few banker boxes, etc I think).
>
> I am guessing when one has that much material its probably going to be
> a lot cheaper to palletize it/put them on a truck and ship them to the
> auction house that way rather than trying to ship the boxes
> individually. The trouble is that I'm not set up to do that. I don't
> have any pallet jacks, don't exactly have any place to do the wrapping
> (they are all in storage - I suppose I could do it there, but again,
> no pallet jack and while the storage space would let me work there but
> I think getting a truck there might be a cluster, etc). In addition,
> while I've packed a LOT of stuff for shipment over the years, I
> haven't ever loaded up items on a pallet/wrapped the pallet for
> shipment so that the will make it, actually tried to use a freight
> company for shipment, etc. And... the times in the past I've dealt
> with freight companies (on the receiving end), it often didn't go well
> (not so much damage as the companies all seemed to do bait and switch
> on rates, tried to extract additional payments they weren't owed,
> there were issues with actual delivery, etc (story of cluster
> surrounding shipment of fiberglass GT6 hood omitted)).
>
> So I was hoping to get some advice for a newbie on dealing with this.
>
> Are there services that can handle the palletizing/getting it
> delivered that won't take you to the cleaners/jerk you around on the
> pricing,etc? Is there a "shipping by truck for dummies" tome out
> there, or...?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> rkg
>
> (Richard George)
>
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<p>First off, Thanks to everybody who took the time to reply!</p>
<p>I see I managed to not include some basic info: The boxes need to
go from Oregon to New York. The recipient has a loading
dock/pallet handling "stuff" (jacks, forklift, etc), but as I
noted before, I don't :-/<br>
</p>
<p>As many people suggested checking out PODs, I checked their
website and their automated tool says they won't deliver to the
zipcode of the recipient and suggested using upack
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.upack.com/";>https://www.upack.com/</a>) instead.</p>
<p>It also sounds like I need to get a better handle on the
weight/volume in order to even ask the right questions to the
various shipping vendors and will go work on that next.<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Thanks again, <br>
</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">rkg</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">(Richard George)</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container">P.S. As with a lot of other
people around here, I've had it with Portland (diatribe omitted to
keep from threadjacking myself), and actually need to have a
number of repairs done to our house before putting it on the
market. To get some stuff out of the way of where the work needs
to get done I was thinking of using a PODs to store some of our
household goods while the work was being done. Thanks to Tim for
mentioning water issues/I'll look into that in the fine print (it
rains a fair amount here, and...).<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-forward-container"><br>
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From where to where?<br>
<br>
Sent from my iPhone<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Richard
George <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:rkg@teleport.com";><rkg@teleport.com></a> wrote:<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm dealing with my dad's estate and have a large quantity of
stuff (tools - ob. shop content) to send across country to get
auctioned off. I was originally looking at using normal shipping
methods (boxes sent at a discount via pirate ship), but it turns
out the house is confident they can deal with far more "stuff"
than I had originally envisioned (would be 40 or so of those
home depot small and medium moving boxes,a few banker boxes, etc
I think).<br>
<br>
I am guessing when one has that much material its probably going
to be a lot cheaper to palletize it/put them on a truck and ship
them to the auction house that way rather than trying to ship
the boxes individually. The trouble is that I'm not set up to do
that. I don't have any pallet jacks, don't exactly have any
place to do the wrapping (they are all in storage - I suppose I
could do it there, but again, no pallet jack and while the
storage space would let me work there but I think getting a
truck there might be a cluster, etc). In addition, while I've
packed a LOT of stuff for shipment over the years, I haven't
ever loaded up items on a pallet/wrapped the pallet for shipment
so that the will make it, actually tried to use a freight
company for shipment, etc. And... the times in the past I've
dealt with freight companies (on the receiving end), it often
didn't go well (not so much damage as the companies all seemed
to do bait and switch on rates, tried to extract additional
payments they weren't owed, there were issues with actual
delivery, etc (story of cluster surrounding shipment of
fiberglass GT6 hood omitted)).<br>
<br>
So I was hoping to get some advice for a newbie on dealing with
this.<br>
<br>
Are there services that can handle the palletizing/getting it
delivered that won't take you to the cleaners/jerk you around on
the pricing,etc? Is there a "shipping by truck for dummies" tome
out there, or...?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
rkg<br>
<br>
(Richard George)<br>
<br>
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