[Shop-talk] Fwd: palletizing stuff and getting the pallets shipped... help?

[Richard George]

First off, Thanks to everybody who took the time to reply!

I see I managed to not include some basic info: The boxes need to go 
from Oregon to New York. The recipient has a loading dock/pallet 
handling "stuff" (jacks, forklift, etc), but as I noted before, I don't :-/

As many people suggested checking out PODs, I checked their website and 
their automated tool says they won't deliver to the zipcode of the 
recipient and suggested using upack (https://www.upack.com/) instead.

It also sounds like I need to get a better handle on the weight/volume 
in order to even ask the right questions to the various shipping vendors 
and will go work on that next.

Thanks again,
rkg
(Richard George)

P.S.  As with a lot of other people around here, I've had it with 
Portland (diatribe omitted to keep from threadjacking myself), and 
actually need to have a number of repairs done to our house before 
putting it on the market.  To get some stuff out of the way of where the 
work needs to get done I was thinking of using a PODs to store some of 
our household goods while the work was being done.  Thanks to Tim for 
mentioning water issues/I'll look into that in the fine print (it rains 
a fair amount here, and...).


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Shop-talk] palletizing stuff and getting the pallets 
shipped... help?
Date: 	Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:52:10 -0400
From: 	George P. Dausch IV <GPD4 at juno.com>
To: 	Richard George <rkg at teleport.com>



 From where to where?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 27, 2022, at 5:17 PM, Richard George <rkg at teleport.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm dealing with my dad's estate and have a large quantity of stuff 
> (tools - ob. shop content) to send across country to get auctioned 
> off. I was originally looking at using normal shipping methods (boxes 
> sent at a discount via pirate ship), but it turns out the house is 
> confident they can deal with far more "stuff" than I had originally 
> envisioned (would be 40 or so of those home depot small and medium 
> moving boxes,a few banker boxes, etc I think).
>
> I am guessing when one has that much material its probably going to be 
> a lot cheaper to palletize it/put them on a truck and ship them to the 
> auction house that way rather than trying to ship the boxes 
> individually. The trouble is that I'm not set up to do that. I don't 
> have any pallet jacks, don't exactly have any place to do the wrapping 
> (they are all in storage - I suppose I could do it there, but again, 
> no pallet jack and while the storage space would let me work there but 
> I think getting a truck there might be a cluster, etc). In addition, 
> while I've packed a LOT of stuff for shipment over the years, I 
> haven't ever loaded up items on a pallet/wrapped the pallet for 
> shipment so that the will make it, actually tried to use a freight 
> company for shipment, etc. And... the times in the past I've dealt 
> with freight companies (on the receiving end), it often didn't go well 
> (not so much damage as the companies all seemed to do bait and switch 
> on rates, tried to extract additional payments they weren't owed, 
> there were issues with actual delivery, etc (story of cluster 
> surrounding shipment of fiberglass GT6 hood omitted)).
>
> So I was hoping to get some advice for a newbie on dealing with this.
>
> Are there services that can handle the palletizing/getting it 
> delivered that won't take you to the cleaners/jerk you around on the 
> pricing,etc? Is there a "shipping by truck for dummies" tome out 
> there, or...?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> rkg
>
> (Richard George)
>
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