We also got all our stuff from America last Tuesday! Poor Jeremy has had to do the majority of the unpacking by himself considering I can hardly stand without a coughing fit, let alone do physical labor. We have two more days to report if anything is missing or broken. So far they have forgotten a part of the guest bed (it is a trundle bed that was packed into 3 boxes) and a couple decorations have been broken. The US packers did a really horrible job packing. They just threw random things together with some paper shoved between them.
Our situation was a bit unconventional. We still had some things packed in boxes from when we moved from our apartment to Jeremy's parents last year. We also had a storage container considering we downsized from an apartment to one bedroom. We realized we couldn't have packers come to their house and try to pack up two people's belongings from a house of 5 people, and then have them get the boxes stored in the garage, and then have them go to the storage unit. It just wouldn't work.
Luckily, my dad has a fairly large house with some spare rooms that weren't being used, so we lugged everything over there. All our items that weren't already boxed up were thrown in boxes and brought over there. At one point we ran out of boxes and used trash bags. It was a mess, but it was the easiest way to get everything over there. The guy the shipping company sent over to give an estimate told us that everything would have to be repacked by the packers anyway if it were to be covered by insurance so to just leave everything as is.
What he didn't tell us was that they would just throw everything into new boxes with no organization whatsoever. If a box we had already used was deemed sturdy enough, they would just throw some packing paper in there and tape it shut. If the box was too beat up, they would use their own boxes, but still just basically dump everything from one box to the next. So opening the boxes has been a nightmare, and the labeling makes no sense. There are probably about 10 boxes marked "Books" and only a few are actually completely filled with books. The rest will have a few books and then literally just anything imaginable. One box simply labeled "Books" will have books, clothes, a vase, kitchen supplies, and one pair of shoes in it.
Another box had a box we had boxed ourselves placed in their box and taped up. It was a box in a box! And remember how I said we had run out of boxes and used trash bags? They just stuck the trash bags in boxes and taped them up! I'm very surprised no more than a few trinkets so far have been found broken. A better job could have been done if it was just me, Jeremy, and a few friends doing it ourselves. This company is getting payed more than a full-time minimum-wage employee makes in a year, and this is how they go about things.
There are only a handful of boxes left and I'm very nervous because we haven't come across my jewelry yet. It's a major accusation that I am not yet willing to declare, and I'll have Jeremy's parents look around their home, but it had been one of the things packed up during the apartment-to-house move and I'm fairly confident we got all those boxes over to my father's. Hopefully we'll find it! And hopefully they'll be able to find 1/3 of a trundle bed in the back of their truck!
Our situation was a bit unconventional. We still had some things packed in boxes from when we moved from our apartment to Jeremy's parents last year. We also had a storage container considering we downsized from an apartment to one bedroom. We realized we couldn't have packers come to their house and try to pack up two people's belongings from a house of 5 people, and then have them get the boxes stored in the garage, and then have them go to the storage unit. It just wouldn't work.
Luckily, my dad has a fairly large house with some spare rooms that weren't being used, so we lugged everything over there. All our items that weren't already boxed up were thrown in boxes and brought over there. At one point we ran out of boxes and used trash bags. It was a mess, but it was the easiest way to get everything over there. The guy the shipping company sent over to give an estimate told us that everything would have to be repacked by the packers anyway if it were to be covered by insurance so to just leave everything as is.
What he didn't tell us was that they would just throw everything into new boxes with no organization whatsoever. If a box we had already used was deemed sturdy enough, they would just throw some packing paper in there and tape it shut. If the box was too beat up, they would use their own boxes, but still just basically dump everything from one box to the next. So opening the boxes has been a nightmare, and the labeling makes no sense. There are probably about 10 boxes marked "Books" and only a few are actually completely filled with books. The rest will have a few books and then literally just anything imaginable. One box simply labeled "Books" will have books, clothes, a vase, kitchen supplies, and one pair of shoes in it.
Another box had a box we had boxed ourselves placed in their box and taped up. It was a box in a box! And remember how I said we had run out of boxes and used trash bags? They just stuck the trash bags in boxes and taped them up! I'm very surprised no more than a few trinkets so far have been found broken. A better job could have been done if it was just me, Jeremy, and a few friends doing it ourselves. This company is getting payed more than a full-time minimum-wage employee makes in a year, and this is how they go about things.
There are only a handful of boxes left and I'm very nervous because we haven't come across my jewelry yet. It's a major accusation that I am not yet willing to declare, and I'll have Jeremy's parents look around their home, but it had been one of the things packed up during the apartment-to-house move and I'm fairly confident we got all those boxes over to my father's. Hopefully we'll find it! And hopefully they'll be able to find 1/3 of a trundle bed in the back of their truck!