Moving logistics

[damerell]

I am moving to Cambridge in July. My landlord and I have n+1 washing machines. Anyone - preferably someone we can drop it off with somewhere near Hampton or in Cambridge - want the indefinite loan of my recently fixed Hoover machine? It does 6kg loads but I think they all do these days.

Also, I have to ship a bunch of stuff trans-Atlantic (literally ship) - I know some of youse may have done this before, and I was hoping I could extract recommendations on firms to use or avoid.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

I believe Anglia Freight Forwarding, in Cambridge, do a decent job of the transatlantic shipping sort of thing.

So where are you going to be in Cambridge then?

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

Shipping> you might want to e-mail reddragdiva as he has shipped a 1/4 ton vinyl across the seas...

or we could use dakeyras's sloop...

[lnr]

Many congrats on finally getting to move! Whereabouts are you going to be living? I'm afraid we already own our own machine too.

[vatine]

Cambrige, UK or Cambridge MA, US?

Closest I've been to long-distance shipping of furniture and stuff was Sweden to Britain. It is well worth noting that if they say they'll invoice you, they probably only will IF you are a corporation (I was bitten by that, as I was told they'd invoice me with a 30-days-to-pay and then called me the day before the move, wondering where the hell their money was, with the following day being full of bank closures, so I couldn't do the money dance then and there).

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Cambridge, UK.

Who were "they", please?

[vatine]

Errr. You're asking me to recall what firm I used seven years ago? It was a Swedish firm, so the chances of you finding the EXACT firm is low, but I suspect it's best to double-check if they're happy to invoice or want up-front payment as a general thing taken away from that.

[angua.livejournal.com]

Sorry, we're fully washing machined up. I'm happy to give you a hand either packing or unpacking though.

[gerald_duck]

Is it a washer or a washer-drier?

My washer-drier is currently only a washer because of fail.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

It's a washer. Entropy suffices for drying.

content-free apart from...

[j4.livejournal.com]

yay Cambridge! :-) (Okay I may not actually live there any more but I visit it far more often than Hampton.)

[actionreplay.livejournal.com]

For shipping, prices quoted will be ex-VAT. Not all shipping companies will do business with a non-business person (ie no VAT cert). If you are shipping part-load, it could take a while for it to get there as they basically wait around until the container is full and all contents going to vaguely the same place. So make sure nothing you WILL need before date X goes in the container.

Husband had his stuff shipped part-load to the Netherlands. It got there ok, but we were very fed up of the only CD that wasn't in the container by the time it arrived...

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

I am moving to Cambridge in July.

Maybe I'll see you some Sunday out with the CTC (http://www.ctc-cambridge.org.uk/). Or at the Hauxton audax (http://www.aukweb.net/cal/calsolo.php?Ride=08-413) in September.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

That seems likely, although having cleared up this deathmarch^W 300k I'm not even looking at the calendar until I've moved. :-)