[Shop-talk] Fwd: palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

[DAVID MASSEY]

 My experience with Pack-Rat but I doubt PODS is any different.  The containers are "Rain Proof" in that they shed water but if you put one on a flat-bed trailer and drive through a rain storm water will find its way in.  If you are just storing I doubt you will have any issues.  And, typically, they store the pod inside a warehouse anyway.
 
Dave 


 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard George <rkg at teleport.com>
To: shop-talk <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 12:01 pm
Subject: [Shop-talk] Fwd: palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

  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 at juno.com> |
| To:  | Richard George <rkg at teleport.com> |

 
 
 From where to where?
 
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On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Richard George <rkg at 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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