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>,
Cindy Fuller > wrote:
> In article >,
> (PENMART01) wrote:
>
> snippage
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> > Experienced movers kinda develop x-ray vision, they can fairly accurately
> > tell
> > what's inside 90% of the cartons, especially when it's books. If nothing
> > else
> > movers know not to place lighter cartons under heavy heavy (certainly not
> > on
> > the hand truck, definitely not in the van), after so many moves it becomes
> > sorta an involuntary reflex... seems a little incomprehensible they'd stack
> > boxes of heavy books on top of a relatively light box, especially since by
> > the
> > third box of books the towel box would begin to collapse. Granted it's
> > manual
> > labor but movers just ain't that dumb.
> >
> >
>
> I wish I had your trust in others, Sheldon. On our move here, the
> movers shrinkwrapped the futon and a box spring and tied them to the
> back of the van. Both were soaking wet and unusable upon arrival. The
> moving co. bought us a new bed, along with fixing the oil pan on SO's VW
> and replacing the espresso machine.
Every experience I've had with professional moving companies (Atlas,
Allied, United) has resulted in serious damage to multiple items, and
hundreds of dollars in claims. My guess is that the companies often
underbid each other aggressively to get contracts, send out
undertrained/underpaid crews that work very fast and sloppy, and just
assume that a certain percentage of customers will file big claims.
Those expenses are built into their business model.
Federal regulations on interstate moving companies have been scaled back
in recent years, and consumer horror stories are quite common. This is
a nasty industry.
ObFood: we gave our moving crew some tasty snacks, and big tips, and
they still trashed our stuff.
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Julian Vrieslander