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From: Richard George <rkg@teleport.com><br>
To: shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net><br>
Sent: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 12:01 pm<br>
Subject: [Shop-talk] Fwd: palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?<br>
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<div>First off, Thanks to everybody who took the time to reply!</div>
<div>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>
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<div>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 rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.upack.com/" class="yiv4896534403moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.upack.com/</a>) instead.</div>
<div>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>
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<div class="yiv4896534403moz-forward-container">Thanks again, <br>
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<div class="yiv4896534403moz-forward-container">rkg</div>
<div class="yiv4896534403moz-forward-container">(Richard George)</div>
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<div class="yiv4896534403moz-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>
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<td>George P. Dausch IV <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:GPD4@juno.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:GPD4@juno.com" class="yiv4896534403moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><GPD4@juno.com></a></td>
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<td>Richard George <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:rkg@teleport.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rkg@teleport.com" class="yiv4896534403moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><rkg@teleport.com></a></td>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Richard
George <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:rkg@teleport.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rkg@teleport.com" class="yiv4896534403moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"><rkg@teleport.com></a> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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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>
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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>
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So I was hoping to get some advice for a newbie on dealing with
this.<br>
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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>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
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rkg<br>
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(Richard George)<br>
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