Yes!! It's another shipping thread

[Lansbury 19]

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

Was that a part container Jeraly? they always seem to be 2 or 3 weeks longer than having the sole use of the container. Our container with Pickfords made it in 45 days.

[Jeraly 4]

Pretty certain it was part container as I didn't have very much

[Jeraly 4]

Just thought I would share that despite not informing me at the time it was needed, I have *just* got an e-mail asking me for a copy of Jeremy's passport and my employment information (even though I am not employed and wasn't employed when filling out the documentation) from Pickfords. Not very happy

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Seven Seas delivered my stuff today. Having picked them up on 23rd July, I think that's 47 days until delivery today. Slightly annoying in that UPS (which Seven Seas use locally) seem to have split the consignment up, and my last box is still in Illinois, although still penciled in for delivery today. I suppose in fairness to Seven Seas, this is a UPS thing, not their fault.

For anyone interested in the particulars, I shipped 6 boxes in total. 4 of the big tea chest size (60x50x40cm ish), 2 of the smaller book ones (50x40x30ish), with each one weighing just shy of the 30kg limit. Cost about 450 quid in total.

Stu

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

I'm going to pick up my boxes today, i'll let you guys know how it goes. I'm clearing customs myself, so I hope it won't be too... interesting.

[pandora 0]

hi,

I used http://www.wedelivertheworld.co.uk/index.php sent 4 boxes total weight 88kg cost me 352.00 they collected day before my flight and my packages got here before i did but no one was home so they delivered the next day on 21 August 2008. There was some slight damage to one of the boxes - but all in all wasnt too bad.

I'm going to pick up my boxes today, i'll let you guys know how it goes. I'm clearing customs myself, so I hope it won't be too... interesting.

Hope it goes nice and easy for you and they dont keep you waiting too long

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Slight update, seems it definitely was a UPS problem and not Seven Seas:

THE PACKAGE WAS MISSED AT THE UPS FACILITY, UPS WILL DELIVER ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY

Perhaps some crafty ####### took longer than expected to copy all my DVDs or something

Speaking of which, although everything in my boxes seems to be intact, worth noting that a few of the dvd cases for my console games have been squeezed, probably with the weight of other boxes on top of mine. It's caused quite a few of them to break. I guess DVD cases need particular care when packing.

Stu

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Hello and thanks for this thread. Geez this is a hard process. How much are you moving? No clue til I fill the boxes.

My fiance has decided on 1st Move International which seems to be ShipIt.co. uk and MoveMe.co.uk

We settled on them because the others seemed to go to the east coast and west coast, then transfer by truck or van to the destination. I was hoping to find one that shipped to Houston, TX (in the middle on the Gulf Coast.) Two told me the goods would go to Philadelphia. Well that's like the distance from London to Romania. The 1st Move (ShipIt?) people said they can put it on a ship bound for Houston and would be cheaper for us that way.

Their minimum is 2 cubic metres. Nick calculated that to be about 30 Dell computer boxes which he's gathering from work. He likes the fact that they advertise everything gets put on a pallet and wrapped in several layers of plastic and secured together. So the plan is that we will collect it ourselves at the Port of Houston because it's a short drive. I have several friends with pick-up trucks we will enlist. I asked the guy if I needed to bring a forklift to load the pallet on the pickup LOL but he said they will break it down for us at the port. So we shall see how this all works out.

Maybe you can give us some tips Poiteen about clearing customs yourself.

[Jeraly 4]

I am still really annoyed with Pickfords - I sent them an e-mail on Monday to clarify the information they wanted and how they suggested I send it to them without delaying things and I have had NO response from them at all. Not impressed.

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Wow, seems like a few of us are having difficulties. We finally got our things on Saturday the 6th. I left a rather irate phone call on Saturday morning with UPAKWESHIP in the UK. I was so angry that the driver STILL had not called us. I no sooner hung up the phone and the driver called...of course I had already called him and left a very cold message on his voice mail. He finally showed up at 11 on Saturday morning and pulled the boxes off the truck and let Glyn carry them up the drive and into the house....and then put his hand out for a tip... Needless to say he left a very disappointed man. I have received an email from the UK side of things apologising and saying that they have been in contact with the higher ups, because I told them straight out that I would never refer them to anyone because of how bad things were done on this side of things. All of our things arrived in one peice with no damage...but 12 weeks after pick up.

Good luck to all of you still waiting.

[Jeraly 4]

Ugh Kathy - I can relate. I *finally* got an e-mail back earlier asking if I could fax the things they need across to them - we have no scanner so this is the only way it can be done short of sending everything snail mail. So Jeremy has to send an international fax from his work - luckily he is the manager so he can get away with it but still - I think it is a real cheek when they are the "experts" and should have told me before I even left. If nothing else I should have heard *something* in the two months since they have picked up my belongings - I know that as I don't have a lot of stuff it might take a little longer to get here, but I should at least have been notified of the extra information they needed

[debbylyn 0]

We used U Pak We Ship also and are still waiting for Barry's things that were picked up on July 7th. He's emailed them and they sent a CC of an e-mail they sent to EURO something or other here in the US advising that the ship docked in Charleston on Aug 8th and to please advise to the location of the client's belongings...still haven't received a response to that...

[debbylyn 0]

Barry's things finally arrived yesterday....everything intact except the glass on one picture......the driver was polite, friendly and helpful...

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As an interesting aside, about a month after Seven Seas delivered all my boxes to me, via UPS, I received an email from Seven Seas advising me that I could be entitled to an income tax refund if I'd not worked a full year up to April 5. Apparently, they'll contact HM R&C on your behalf and sort it all out, presumably taking a small slice of your refund as payment.

From their email:

A tax refund claim can involve substantial correspondence with HM Revenue & Customs which is time-consuming and difficult if you are changing address.

Absolute cobblers, don't use Seven Seas or any other middle man. Either ring HM R&C before you leave the UK and ask for a P85 form, or download and print it from their website. It's a straight forward form, and I had my £650 ish refund in a cheque (to my sister, as my nominee) about a month after I arrived in the US and sent off the form.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

Hello and thanks for this thread. Geez this is a hard process. How much are you moving? No clue til I fill the boxes.

My fiance has decided on 1st Move International which seems to be ShipIt.co. uk and MoveMe.co.uk

We settled on them because the others seemed to go to the east coast and west coast, then transfer by truck or van to the destination. I was hoping to find one that shipped to Houston, TX (in the middle on the Gulf Coast.) Two told me the goods would go to Philadelphia. Well that's like the distance from London to Romania. The 1st Move (ShipIt?) people said they can put it on a ship bound for Houston and would be cheaper for us that way.

Their minimum is 2 cubic metres. Nick calculated that to be about 30 Dell computer boxes which he's gathering from work. He likes the fact that they advertise everything gets put on a pallet and wrapped in several layers of plastic and secured together. So the plan is that we will collect it ourselves at the Port of Houston because it's a short drive. I have several friends with pick-up trucks we will enlist. I asked the guy if I needed to bring a forklift to load the pallet on the pickup LOL but he said they will break it down for us at the port. So we shall see how this all works out.

Maybe you can give us some tips Poiteen about clearing customs yourself.

I've been meaning to, and I think I've started a wiki about it, but if you don't see it before you need the info, just PM me and I will give you the rundown.