Yes!! It's another shipping thread

[Jeraly 4]

LMAO Oh dear - at least he has a sense of humour!! And you'll be able to domesticate soon too!!!

Now I want Jeremy here so we can drive down to Santa Ana... I don't fancy buying a car in the dark and he has to find his registered keeper's certificate thing and change his brakes...

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

Yay for Mavens furniture arriving!! We don't have any, so I think we're going to be improvising for a while, till we get jobs.

To answer the question above, we were also quoted 8-12 weeks from door in London, to port in LA. We've got a few weeks to go till we hit 8 weeks, so I'll update here when they arrive

[Lansbury 19]

Glyn is convinced hurricane Bertha wiped out the ship and that we just haven't been told yet. LOL....I think he has an over active imagination.

Just a thought, if you know the name of the ship do a google search on it.

I did when our stuff was shipped over. The ships name threw up a tracking site and I could see where it was each day as it crossed the Atlantic, sailed down the east coast and threw the Panama Canal. (Not much to do each day when you don't have a job)

[no name 1]

Yay for Mavens furniture arriving!! We don't have any, so I think we're going to be improvising for a while, till we get jobs.

To answer the question above, we were also quoted 8-12 weeks from door in London, to port in LA. We've got a few weeks to go till we hit 8 weeks, so I'll update here when they arrive

POiteen -

Where are you staying when you get here???

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Yeah, where? We are trying to get the social occasion of the summer -- your arrival -- organised.

Ooooh, and I have a prezzie for you, Poiteen. I accidentally ordered two copies of a book -- "The Newcomer's Guide to LA." It's very useful and I've used it quite a bit already. Since I have a mint one on hand, would you like it?

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

I'm sorry that this whole post is going to be OT, but I promise to do a wiki entry in the future to make up for my crimes

We got a very cheap hotel just off Santa Monica beach. It was advertised on Westside rentals, so we'll see. We've only booked it for a week. I think of it as a good way to be by the beach at least for a week of our time in LA, and also to demonstrate to C what the commuting would be like.

Thanks for the offer Maven, sounds great, I'd love it. We splashed out on getting iphones, so hopefully that should help us to get around and find places to live etc more quickly. I've been reading VJ on it, which makes me happy.

We're arriving on the 6th, I got a small conference thingy on the 8th and 9th (Friday and Saturday) but after that I got no plans. So organise away, I can't wait.

Aly - any chance of you coming over to the meetup? Got you're new car yet? Or maybe we could do an excursion to Palm Springs later? Can't wait to see you both again, and also meet up with those I haven't met already.

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[no name 1]

We got a very cheap hotel just off Santa Monica beach. It was advertised on Westside rentals, so we'll see. We've only booked it for a week. I think of it as a good way to be by the beach at least for a week of our time in LA, and also to demonstrate to C what the commuting would be like.

On me & Robin's side of town!!!

[Jeraly 4]

Glyn is convinced hurricane Bertha wiped out the ship and that we just haven't been told yet. LOL....I think he has an over active imagination.

Just a thought, if you know the name of the ship do a google search on it.

I did when our stuff was shipped over. The ships name threw up a tracking site and I could see where it was each day as it crossed the Atlantic, sailed down the east coast and threw the Panama Canal. (Not much to do each day when you don't have a job)

Hmmm - would be great to do that! I'm a sucker for torturing myself like that!!! Maybe I will e-mail Pickfords and see if they can tell me

Aly - any chance of you coming over to the meetup? Got you're new car yet? Or maybe we could do an excursion to Palm Springs later? Can't wait to see you both again, and also meet up with those I haven't met already.

:star: :star:

Ha! New car... well we got to Yucaipa and spent 90 minutes looking for Jeremy's registration certificate thing for his van and couldn't find it so we came home again. I had an awful day yesterday and today I am poorly so I am generally quite grumpy. I just want to eat ice cream

We're in AZ on the 7th-11th (4 nights) doing our legal wedding thing but if like the following week has something planned then we may be able to do something, depending on budget - we have so little money right now it is insane But if you keep me posted on the details then we might be able to work something out Maybe we should continue the plans in the OT thread though

Oh - we could ship me to LA - ok back on topic now

[Roselinda 5]

Just a quickie!

I used Allfreight to ship my gear over.

It took less than two weeks and everything got here in one piece.

Only took us around and hour and a half to wait for it to be cleared through customs. I'm sure they had a good laugh when they saw the amount of shoes I had shipped over.

So I'm more than happy with the service I received!

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Our things have finally made it to port...now we just have to wait for them to clear customs. It will be 7 weeks on Friday that our things were picked up.

[Captain Oates 911]

Seven seas does look good - a good clear website is a new thing to me !

I only brought 4 suitcases in 2 trips and threw everything except photos

I worked on starting a new life with new stuff - it's amazing all that keeping stuff that I didn't need to do

Stuff in the US is dirt cheap anyway (It's embarrassingly cheap ) so now I have all new

I am working on returning for a week every 4 months as my sis/mother are 'in care' and I will just take 1.5 empty suitcases each time and bring the photos back slowly..

Wish I had digitized them and thrown them away ! Think I will digitize them when i get here so my mrs doesn't see em !

£125 for a tea chest door to door is good and struggling with extra suitcases in airports is awful - and renting a bigger car to get boxes in (and hoping they fit) just adds to the trauma

[SMB x2 0]

Yeah, Seven Seas have been pretty decent so far. Apparently, my guff is floating somewhere in the Atlantic at the moment, due for delivery in approx 3 weeks or less.

If I had to be pedantic, I'd moan about the insurance they offer, or, more specifically, how you set it up. When it said "list all the items" in the box for the full coverage (at 5% value of the box), I figured saying "dvds 50 quid, books 50 quid" etc would be sufficient. No, you need to itemise every dvd and book individually. Good grief. Couldn't be bothered, went with the cheaper insurance which lets you say "dvds, 50 quid".

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Just in case anyone is still looking for shippers. DO NOT USE UPAKWESHIP! Our things are here in the States. Have been cleared out of customs for 2.5 weeks and nothing yet. We have received 1 phone call from Euro-USA...the actual registered name of upak...all other contact I have initiated. I have written back to the UK asking for help....no reply. We have been told to expect a phone call this morning(Tuesday)...it is now 7pm and nothing. We are still using the internet at the library as our pc is in South Carolina sitting in a truck. I cannot describe how angry I am. I just started my new job today and had to go and spend quite a bit of money as most of my "work" clothes have not yet arrived.

I am very unhappy as is Glyn. It is now about 11 weeks since our things shipped. I don't know who to turn to with this. Is there some place in the EU that handles these things? Do I have to suffer now as I am here even though the contract is from there? I am to the point that I am going to go out and purchase a laptop...I need a pc at home...this is ridiculous.

Sorry for the rant. I just really wanted to warn people away.

[Captain Oates 911]

Thats awful and you have my sympathy - i used to take my desktop pc and screen in my hold luggage on the plane - poor mans laptop !

You dont realise how much you need a computer til you dont have one...

I have found an ace company for internal US moves - united van lines - absolutely wonderful --but I have no experience on international shipping

Edited September 2, 2008 by saywhat

[Jeraly 4]

Oh that sounds dreadful Mine has taken about seven weeks or something so far - I did e-mail them to ask if they had the ship details but nothing - I figured that I have up to another month to wait anyway That was with Pickfords