Hello Marijana, I would first buy a matress bag from any self storage place. Then look around moving companies in your area and ask if you can buy a matress carton. Place the matress in the bag, tape it closed and then slide it into the matress carton. Tape it up with either 2 inch tape or duct tape. Make sure your name is clearly marked on each side. Dont let anyone convince you it will get there in good shape with just the plastic bag or shrink wrap around it. Hope that helps and Happy New Year, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Gabriele, thanks for the message. I dont have the rates to hand here so I passes your enquiry on to our local office who will be contacting you to quote you direct, Cheers and Happy New Year, Moving Dr.

Hello Bernard, sorry we didnt get a chance to answer you before you called this morning! As explained if you declare alcohol in your shipment you will have to pay duties and VAT on the declared value. Normally I would say to people to leave it behind or drink it before you go as the time you pay the VAT and the duties averaging about 30% you would be better buying at your local Tescos when you get there. Your items however are collectors items so if you choose to ship them I would try and keep the values low. Regarding your packing list, you can be failry vague like Box1 Books, Box2 Clothes, Box3 kitchenware etc etc Hope that helps and Happy New Year, cheers Moving Dr

Yes we do, if you could email us what you would like to take and from where to where, we can give you some rates and service options. Thanks, Happy New Year, Moving Dr. move@upakweship.com

There are no 10 foot containers available for International shipping unfortunately but you could use a 20 foot container but dont stack it too high and spread the load? Would that work? Where are you moving from and too?

Hello Micah, transit is going to take about 5-6 weeks to door. I have emailed you some prices and service options. Any other info you need let me know, cheers Moving Doc

No you can use any size box you want but make sure they are moving boxes and not weak flimsy supermarket boxes. Also dont make boxes so big or heavu that one person can’t lift them easily. Cheers Moving Doc

Sure we can help on this. I have passed on to our colleagues in Auckland to quote you direct.Cheers Moving Doc

Sure, I’ll send you some prices. We offer discounts for shipments dropped off at our Los Angeles terminal. I would pack the sofa in a sofa bag and then wrap in paper or movers blankets and possibly then shrink wrap to hold it all together and protect it. Cheers Moving Doc.

Hello Helen, thanks for the kind words. I have passed this over to our UK office to answer you on prices and transit times. I would say though that there is not a 10foot container so your choices are a 20foot container or ship as a part load with other peoples belongings called groupage. Near on 400 cubic feet is quite a large shipment for groupage so it will probably come in about 2/3 rds of a self load container so it might be worth looking at the self load container as you would get nearly 3 times the amount of things for just a third more of the price. If you want to cut back on costs I would suggest cutting back on the volume and ship may be just boxes on the groupage service to really save some money. I hope that helps and Merry Christmas, Cheers The Moving Doc

Hello Nick, we have a baggage price for up to 30 cubic feet which is about 5 suitcases full but boxes are good. All she would have to do is drop it off at our Portland terminal and we would ship it through to your ground floor front door for $654. Hope thats sounds reasonable? I’ll email you these prices and tell your fiancee to call me if she has any questions or needs some help. Cheers Moving Doc

Hello Ozzie, thanks for the message. While we do always try to help the British Expat Community I’m sorry but we will have to pass on this one. Our sponsor / charity budget has all been spent for the year and funding doest normally start again untill March / April time ready for the summer. The other problem is that if you wanted the paintings to arrive by the end of January, they needed to be collected by early December to have caught a ship before Christmas to arrive at our England facility in early Jan to clear customs and have them delivered to you on time. Unfortunately this request has come in too late for that to happen.
I wish you luck with your art exhibition and hope we can may be of help in the future. Cheers Moving Doc

I am sorry we dont have any services from Africa. I suggest you contact a company over there called AGS to provide you a quote. Cheers Moving Dr

Hello Heidi, thanks for the message, the U Crates are quite heavy as they are made of wood so we make them available at any of our 88 terminals which in your case would be Denver. So your options are either you hire a UHaul van and bring your items to our terminal to load or hire a flat bed truck and go and collect the crate from our terminal and bring it home to load. I have seen small flat bed trucks for hire at Lowes and Home Depot which would work well. Only negatives about loading the crate at home is 1/ you will have to lift everything up onto the flat bed and then load the truck as you cant put the crate on the ground unless you happen to have a forklift. The other thing is this will have to be done outside and therefore is subject to the Denver weather which might be a bit tricky in the winter. If you however load the U Crate at our terminal you will be inside.
The alternative if you want to load at home is the U Box, although made of strong cardboard with a palletized bottom it is light enough for us to send it to your home for loading and then collecting from your garage later when your finished loading. Although smaller they do enable you to have the protectiuon and load at your own speed at home.
The U Boxes are also carried through to your door for unloading where sometimes depending where you live, the heavy crates are unloaded on the final leg of your delivery and the contents delivered to your residence and not the crate as again they are too heavy and awkward to be manovered and unloaded at your house from a truck.
So to clarify answers above:
Yes you can collect a crate 2 weeks in advance for loading if you can keep it under cover
No they are made of wood so not waterproof however as they travel on trucks from our terminals and loaded into shipping containers and then again trucks to your overseas home they are never outside to get wet.
The U Box however does come with a plastic cover as an added protection at the time of loading and unloading.
No you dont need to plastic wrap any boxes.
In case you havnt seen all the options I’ll email them to you, cheers The Moving Dr

Hello Eva can you email us the origin and destination cities and we can then give you a quote or alternatively you can complete our online quote form by clicking here.
Hope thats ok, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Billy, we can get you a quote for this. I’m passing this over to Stephanie who is our resident container expert. She will be in touch, Cheers The Moving Dr

Hello Travis, best bet would be to use the post office or call DHL / UPS or similar for prices. This would be the most cost effective way of moving these small packages. Hope that helps, Moving Doc.

Yes you can load and ship everything in a 20 ft shipping container and thats the most cost effective way to ship these items but unfortunately we dont have a service from Australia to Jamaica so I suggest you call aroung or google shipping companies that offers this route. Cheers Moving Doc

Hello, thanks for posting the question, unfortunately we dont have a service from Germnany to Brazil but if the weight is only50-60 kilos I suggest DHL, UPS or even the Germam Post Office Deutche Post should be the most economical way of shipping these items, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Fabiana, unfortunately we do not have a service from Northern Norway, only options I know are International Movers like Adams Express or NFB. Hope this helps a little and sorry we cant be of service for this move, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Jimmy, we are working on our Europe to USA U Box service at the moment and it should be up and running early next year. I will email you the prices as soon as they are confirmed in the next few weeks, Hope we are not too late ! Cheers Moving Dr

Your best bet would be to contact our agent in Australia direct that we work with between Australia and England. Their name is Conroys. Sydney, Australia Phone: +61 2 8787 7800
Hope that helps, cheers The Moving Dr

Hello Kim, we are working on it and it will be up n running in the New Year but not by Dec 21st I’m afraid. Apologies, The Moving Dr

Hello Jonathan, yes I would definitely use these crates. You would have to load them and bring them to one of our 4 terminals in TN https://www.upackweship.com/locations.php and from there we could ship the crates to your door In England for $1091.00 all inclusive. I will email you the rates as well, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Jen, we are putting the final touches to our new U Box service from Europe to USA and it will be introduced before the end of the year but in the mean time best bet would be to contact our EU HQ in England. Tel 44 1638 515 335. Cheers Moving Dr

Hello Pam, yes we do have some services to Tasmania and I have emailed them to you. Any questions let me know, cheers Moving Dr

Hello Elizabeth. Well the cheapest options are the baggage and shared container rates where you can pack everything into boxes and then drop the boxes off at one of our 88 terminals in America. From there we will ship everything to your door in Birmingham. The baggage 1-30 cubic feet is only $654. The 31-50 cubic feet is $860 and then the shared container price on anything up to 100 cubic feet is $1091.00 If you would like a little more protection and want to know up front exactly how much its all going to cost then I suggest our U Box. We send that to your home for you to load which means you dont have to take everything to our terminal. Also its a lump sum price for whatever fits in the U Box so you know how muck its all going to cost up front which is great if your on a tight budget. One U Box door to door is only $1109.00 so you know up front the total charges plus you can load it all in your own time and when you have finished loading it all up we will come and collect it and ship it off to Birmingham. I’ll email you the deatails, hope this helps, Cheers Moving Doc

Hello Jason, we are working on our U Box service from Europe into USA and will be up and running by year end. I will email you the rates and service options shortly, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Marcus, if you are moving your normal residence from the USA to UK and you put on your C3 customs form that all your items are more than 6 months old then there will be no duties or taxes charged. Hope that helps, cheers Moving Doc

Hello David, we are working on our U Box service from all points Europe to USA. I think in your case the U Box will be perfect for your things. We will have the prices and service options available in the next few weeks and once they are finalised I will get them emailed to you. Thanks Moving Doc.

Hello Scott, we make all the U Crates at our head office in Charleston SC and ship them out the the terminals once we receive orders so unfortunately we dont have them in SLC for you to view. If you want to get an idea of the size, I suggest marking the dims on your floor and wall with painters tape to make yourself an imaginery U Crate !
If as you said you wanted to build your own crate you can do that and deliver it to our SLC terminal. The crate can be any dimension as long as its under 7 feet and it has a palletised bottom so we can unload it with a forklift. The price for this would be our shared container prices terminal to door. I think that covers everything, anything else let me know, cheers Moving Doc

Hello John, everything needs to be boxed for our shared container service but you may wrap and pack and load furniture items into our U Crates. You can find the rates and dimensions for them here. https://www.upakweship.com/services-ucrate.php Hopefully that will work but if not and you need more info let us know, thanks Moving Dr

Hello, our Airfreight division can quote you on this. Their tel nbr is 866 944 8303 or if not may be try the post office or UPS, cheers Moving Dr

Hello Noah, we have what we call Baggage Rates for small shipments where you could drop your shipment at one of our terminals in Ohio and from there we will take it all the way through to your door in Queensland. For example, Ohio to Brisbane for up to 30 cubic feet (about 5 suitcases) is $916.00 I will email you all our rates and options, Cheers Moving Dr

Hello Michael, I used to go on holidays to Kingsbridge when I was a kid. Its a lovely place. I will email you all our different rates and service options but I suggest you look at our U Box option. Its a lump sum price door to door for whatever you can fit in it. Not only is this a very safe way of shipping as the U Box protects all your things, its great for people on a tight budget as you know up front exactly how much its going to cost. Just like the Post Office says If it fits it ships ! In this case door to door to England is $1109 for 1 U Box and the second is only $664 if you want to ship 2 of them!
One of our customers put a great video on you tube showing her experiances with the U Box, click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TLeTH1mSE or our official video showing the U Box and more information is here https://www.upakweship.com/services-residential-ubox.php
I hope this helps and let me know how you get on and if you have any questions, cheers Moving Doc

Hello Mitchel, yes the U Crate will worl for all your belongings. Just make sure everythinhg is clean, particualrly any horse equipment needs to be clean and no horse hair. We have all the customs documents for your household goods shipping here and as long as everything is clean and nothing hazardous, no food stuff, nothing that used to be alive all should be good ! I will email you our U Crate prices through to your door in Hamilton. Everything will be included except if there is some sort of MAF inspection where they check to see everything is clean and your shipment is not infected with spiders etc !
Regarding your horse and dog, I would recomend you contacting a good friend of mine Mark Botten who owns a company called Pet Express. Mark can help, advise and give you a quote for shippping them on a plane and possible with you too. Make sure your sitting down though as that will not be cheap ! His tel nbr is 1 866 738 6683 mark@petexpress.us
Hope that helps, anything else let me know, cheers Moving Doc

Hello I think our 20 ft self load shipping container would be best for this. We will work out a price and email it to you, thanks Moving Doc

We ship to Europe every week and I can assure you there is no problem with wooden furniture bought in a store here in the USA going to Europe. Thanks Moving Doc

Hello Miriam, how exciting for you ! Well we dont have an office in Vancouver but work with a local partner there called Cindy. I will pass your message to her and cc you by email so that she can come back to you direct. Cheapest way will be for him to drop his things off at the terminal in Vancouver. Yes the quote will be all the way through to your residence in Kassel.
Wishing you all the best and happiness, The Moving Doc

Hello Susan, there are no weight limits on a U Box providing you are just shipping your normal belongings and not your weight lifting equipment or gold bars ! Our normal rate for Thailand is only for Bangkok so if you email us if you want one or 2 U Boxes I can come back to you with a price for Chiang Mai, thanks Moving Doc move@upakweship.com

It depends on the tractor size so suggest you mark out a size 20ft x 8ft and see if you can drive 4 into that space. I am thinking you might need a 40ft depending on the size of the tractors or have you thought about shipping RORO ? Thanks Moving Doc

Hello Yvonne, in order to work out the volume or cubic feet of your shipment, stack all your boxes together to form one big cube of boxes. Now take a tape measure and measure the longest, highest and widest points of your cube and multiply them together. Now divide that big number by 1728 and that will be the cubic feet of your shipment. If this still sounds a bit tricky, click here and enter the 3 dimensions and it will tell you the cubic feet.
Another way is to look at the packing boxes you have as quite often they will advise you the size of the boxes underneath like 1.5 cu ft or 3 cu ft. So if your boxes are 3 cubic feet then take 30 divided by 3 and you will see you can take 10 boxes to make up 30 cubic feet. In case your wondering why you have to divide by 1728 thats the number you get if you multiply 12x12x12 inches which is 1 cubic foot. I hope this makes sense and I have not confused you ! Thanks The Moving Doc

Hello, Nicole, thanks for the message, we can certainly move your boxes for you. Where are you moving from? Let me know and I can either get you a price or recommend someone to contact, thanks The Moving Dr

Hello Mike, we like a weeks notice please if thats possible. We can do it in less than that and have never turned someone away but a week gives everyone a little time to get everything in place and paperwork all signed before the stress starts kicking in ! Hope thats ok, Happy Packing, The Moving Doc

I would first google a car shipping company called Wallenius and get a price from them. If for some reason this doesnt work for you let me know. We can ship it for you but will need you to get it crated where as Wallenius can accept it as is and all you have to do is ride it to the port. Cheers The Moving Dr

Hello Paul, yes you can advise us the delivery address later. This happens all the time as most people have to find a place when they get there. If and when you make a booking just tell us the city you are wanting to move to so we get an idea and you can email us later with the actual delivery address while the ship is sailing across to Europe. Hope that helps and let us know if you have any other questions, Cheers Moving Doc

Hello Susan, earlier this year we were the first and as far as I know still the only company to introduce a price gaurentee so you know everything is all inclusive. Click here for more details. The only time anything extra would be charged would be due to bad access meaning one of our big trucks couldnt get near your residence which means we would have to hire a shuttle van or if customs charged duties and taxes. This would only be charged if items were declared as being less than 6 months old or if you were furnishing a secondry home or could not supply the necessary paperwork in order to get the things in duty and tax free. Lastly our European operation will also charge extra if you want delivery to a residence above the second floor.
With regards to you being left some items by your parents; customs will normally allow these items in tax and duty free if the items are specifically mentioned in a will being left to you. If this is not the case then we suggest you writing a letter to customs that we will forward on your behalf mentioning the circumstances and including the (second hand, not much value to anyone else) value of the items in case Customs still decide to charge duties and taxes.
It is also worth mentioning that when customs charge duties and taxes it is done by accumalitve value. Without going into too much detail this means they take the CIF value, (thats the Costs of the items plus the Insurance value plus the costs of the Freight meaning the shipping cost. The tax will then be added to this value. Once that total is reached they will then charge VAT on the lot currently at 20% so do make sure your value that you start with is the second hand not worth much to anyone else’s value if you tried to sell the items used on Ebay etc.
I hope this answers your questions, please email mark@eurousa.us if you need more information or have further questions on this subject as I can if needed ask customs to be specific on your situation if you let me know all the details of these items in advance of any shipping.
I hope that helps, cheers The Moving Dr