Hello Son, unfortunately you don’t say where you are, but yes if you have decent furniture you want to take, then you can probably ship it for a lot cheaper than buying new. I always say economically speaking either take just boxes and may be some small furniture items or take the lot. Anything in between doesn’t really make cost effective sense when moving overseas. A self load 20foot shipping container would probably be the best way for you to ship everything. I will ask Stephanie in our office to email you to find out where you are so that we can then give to some service options and prices.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Claudia, let me pass this over to Chris Corder in our office to see what he can do and advise options and prices. Please not also that in order to get duty and tax free entry into the UK, you have to state you have moved to the UK within the last 6 months otherwise customs unfortunately have a right to charge you duties and taxes (roughly 30% of the declared used value plus cost of the shipping and insurance.) One way around this that sometimes works if you can prove you were paying for storage while saving up to pay for the shipping but you would have to provide receipts of payments to the storage company.
I hope that helps and Chris will be in touch
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Karen, I’m not confident in saying yes it will be ok without seeing it but a good mover should be able to figure it out. There are a lot of options, may be trying to get it through on its side, may be feet first, take cushions off, or taking the door off can sometimes work. Would be rare if someone has manufactured a chair that doesn’t fit through a door!
Hope that helps and yes try and get an experienced mover to help you. Ask your friends first if they know anyone that has experience before paying a mover though.
Let us know how you get on.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Caroline, yes the bike box due to the height will make this in the 31-50 cubic foot range once its put on a pallet. If it helps the financial pain, we are getting rid of the 1-30 cube baggage rates and just doing a 1-50 cube rate due to items like this.
Good luck with the packing and let me know if you need any help on packing advice or measuring.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Julio. This depends on a few factors. Where are you moving from? Would your furniture look right in UAE and what’s your furniture worth. If its expensive then it might be worth taking but if its run of the mill you might want to consider buying new things when you get there or rent a furnished place for a while and just ship your personal items like pictures, computer, clothes, bedding etc
If you fill out our quick quote form we can come back to you with some options and prices.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Peter, If you are wanting to take beds, sofas and that sort of stuff, the safest and cheapest way of doing this is using our self load shipping container service. The containers come on a back of a truck and are aprox 20 feet by 8 feet wide and 8 foot 6 inches high. That’s about the size of a single car garage and will normally fit a small 3 bed house, town houses or a flat. You have to pack and load it up yourselves and unload it the other end but we will take care of everything in between. You can normally save between $2500-$3,000 by using this service rather than a full service moving company. Even if you pack everything yourselves and hire a local mover at about $500 to help you load it, you are still quids in. I’ll get Stephanie in our office to email you so she can find out from where to where and then send you a quote for this. We can also offer various cheaper options for smaller amounts if you choose to send a smaller amount of furniture. I hope this helps and let me know if you need more advice, help or any questions, cheers Mark

Hello Alexia, I an going to pass this on to Chris at our London office to email you some rates and options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Marjory. This sounds like a very unique piece of furniture which has been with the family for many years and has a lot of fond memories attached to it. In this instance I would suggest not trying to pack this yourself. I suggest asking a few local movers in your area to give you a price for export packing these two items and then placing them in a crate. If they are affiliated with a van line like Allied or United for example they could quote you for shipping it. We could also give you a quote for the shipping once we knew the size of the crate.
Also please bear in mind that this might be assessed with duties and taxes in Europe if this is being shipped as a gift and not attached to someone moving over there or named in a will.
If you need more information, please feel free to email me at move@upakweship.com or call at 1 866 868 6386
Hope that helps, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Alison, depending on what you have I think leaving your furniture behind can be a good idea but leaving all your personal items behind is a different story. These are your personal memories, gifts, pictures, keepsakes you got on holiday, plus your not going to get many big thick sweaters and coats that you need in the UK in 2 suitcases lol. We have a few different services and pricing options that might suit you. Depending where you are you could probably save some money by dropping your boxes off at one of our 88 terminals across the country or may be you could load one of our U Cubes at your house. These U Cubes will hold 50 cubic feet and its an all inclusive door to door lump sum price for whatever you can get to fit in it. That’s nice if you are on a tight budget or have a tight husband 🙂 A U Cube from most places in US to England is $1209 which I think is a great deal for a door to door all inc service. We do have cheaper baggage options to starting at $860 all inclusive terminal to door. Anyway I will get Peter to email you all our rates and options and hopefully we will have something that suits your needs and budget. Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Ken, yes it is, we just don’t have all the rates on the web site yet. I’ll get Chris Corder to email you to find out some more information like from where to where and how many things you have to ship to USA and he will then be able to give you some prices and options. Look out for an email from Chris@eurousa.us Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Catalina, I will get Pete at our Canada desk to answer you this with some rates and service options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hi Thomas, it depends a little on what the equipment is and its purpose, for example scientific equipment being sold will have a different route and rates than your music equipment that you are taking with you on your move. Either way we can handle this and will email you for some more information before giving you some rates and service options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Terry, our London office will be able to help you with this. I’ll get Chris Smith to send you an email and offer you some rates and options, Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Nicholas, we can do it but it will be expensive due to the floor space its going to take up in the shipping container and our truck. I will get Pete to contact you and advise though, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hi Wendy, use at least 6 foot straps to loop around the axle on the inside of each wheel and secure to the wood floor about 2 feet in front and behind for rear tires and nail gun a piece of wood twisted around the strap to make it tight and nail gun it to the floor.
For more information about loading a car, please click here and watch our how to load a car power point presentation.
Call or email me if you need more info or advice.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Jordan, this really depends on the width of the boat and trailer to see if we can fit it in a 20 foot container. If the boat is too wide it needs to be secured on to a flat bed container or Flat Rack as they are called. This is a specialized job normally handled by a boat dealer, specialized boat shipper or rigging company and beyond our expertise. I’ll pass on to Pete on our Canada desk to see what he can advise though and see if he has any recommendations, Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hi Kathy, we normally need a weeks notice to get a U Cube to you but if needed we can send it to you on a faster service eg a 2 or 3 day service but the costs does go up to cover the express delivery service. We use UPS to ship out the flat packed U Cubes to you so you can track it on line with UPS.
With the weeks notice we can get it there pretty much any day you would like, Mon – Fri
You can keep the U Cube as long as you need at the storage unit so I would get it delivered at the beginning of the trip and ask the self storage front office to receive the U Cube on your behalf so you can have it there when you arrive.
Once you have finished loading and its ready to go, call us and we will collect the next day Mon-Fri. Normally its any time during the day but for an extra $75 we can arrange a 2 hour window for collection that might help you in this case.
I hope that helps, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Dennis,
I’ll get Pete to send you a quote on our LCL service out of Seattle. We can not put it in our through to door consolidation service as that only works for household goods.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Michael, UPakWeShip can definitely help and you will save considerable moving expenses if you can pack the items yourself and even more if you delivered them to our terminal in Toronto. This might be a bit tricky though with your desk? Pete in our office takes care of everything in Canada so I will pass this over to him and he will answer you on email giving you some service options and prices.
Many thanks, Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Liz, to be honest I am not a huge fan of sending cars in containers to England. They do take longer to export and to import due to extra security layers involved with shipping autos so I would add on at least and extra 10 days on the transit time of a container. There can be some extra roll fees (container misses ship and gets rolled to next vessel) as well as possible port storage fees due to Customs delays as well. Obviously bear in mind the steering wheel will be on the curbside in the UK but great if you plan on having lots of holidays in Europe! Motor insurance will also be higher with a left hand drive in the UK and re sale will be lower due to it being a left hand drive. An alternative would be RORO if you still want to take it, that’s where you would drive it to the port and collect it at the other end. You could do this and then ship your things in a U Cube or U Crate may be? You are not allowed to put anything in your car though for shipping if you do this.
I’ll get Stephanie to confirm to you the transit time on the container with a car and Peter on a U Cube for you.
Hope that helps,
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Kristine, I used to work and live in Jeddah. Its a very different and interesting place! I suggest getting a quote with and without the mattress set as I think it might be worth just shipping the boxes and buying a new mattress set when you get there unless its a really fancy one.
Either way I will get Peter to contact you and give you rates for a U Cube for the boxes and U Pod for the boxes and mattress. Please be aware there is a 100% customs inspection rule in Saudi Arabia and you can not ship any religious things including statues that you might want to worship as well as nothing alcohol or pornographic. Also be careful of any labels in clothes that might be from a Jewish store that is on the black list and if in doubt cut out labels.
I trust you are ok giving up Bacon!
Cheers The Moving Doctor

should have mentioned looking to ship from Boston

Hello Mike, our pallets are 48 x 40 inches and you can load up to about 6.5 feet high safely. Make sure everything is within the pallet size as anything sticking out beyond the pallet area could be hit by another pallet or the container wall when loading or unloading the container. Yes we can provide the pallets, tape and even tie straps and a plastic shroud you can put over it for a small extra charge.
depending on the final volume and amount of pallets we might be able to give you a discount. We can ship them to many terminals in France including for example Marseilles and Bordeaux but at slightly different rates. Transit on this service is about 4-5 weeks and yes you can drop off in Boston. Please note however that the Cheap Ship Terminal to Terminal service does NOT include Customs clearance or Port fees at destination. We can advise the approximate costs involved for this when we know the volume. If your French is great and you enjoy a challenge you can try to clear customs your self at the port of entry or if not contract a customs broker at about 150-200 Euros to do this. Bear in mind all transactions and communications will be in French as we ship directly from Boston to France. If however you chose one of our to door service like the U Crate or U Pod then we ship via our England terminal and our rates include all the Customs fees and port charges and we actually clear customs in England for Europe so we don’t have to deal with European Customs formalities.
I’ll get Peter in our office here to explain more and give you the rates and service options for Cheap Ship and the all inclusive to door services.
If this sounds a little confusing please by all means call me.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hi Andy, funny how that happens 🙂 Yes we can certainly help you and think either our door to door U Cube service which is a all you can load into the Cardboard crate for a lump sum price or may be our shared container service, also door to door. I’ll get Peter in our office to email you more information and some prices, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Catherine, we don’t operate a service at present from USA to Canada but are working on it! In the meantime, I would ask ABF Moving for a pup or trailer price and also ask R&L Carriers, YRC Trucking and possibly PODS all have self pack & load options.
Hope that helps, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Lieve, Yes I suggest either moving 4-5 suitcases through us by ship at the 1-30 cubic foot baggage rates or take 1-2 suitcases extra on the plane with you and pay the excess baggage. Sometimes you might be better off booking an upgrade that comes with more baggage allowance. I will get Peter to confirm the baggage rates with you. Hope that helps, Cheers The Moving Doctor

First of all THANK YOU for your service. To be honest I have no ideas of how to export anything from Afghanistan short of asking a pilot of a C130 or C-5 or if the USA military is still loading ships with equipment out of there may be ask them. The carriers are called Wallenius, ARC, NYK or K Line. You could Google those names and email them. Good luck and thanks again, Stay safe.
Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Elena, well that’s different! I guess so, are they packed? Would need to know sizes of the carpets rolled or folded and then we could quote you a price. Email me move@upakweship.com with more details and I’ll send you a quote, cheers The Moving Doctor

ps Shame they are not magic as they could have flown themselves! 🙂

Hello Joanne, glad to hear we are being helpful! Answers to your questions are below:
1/ No plywood needed, that’s if you wanted to hold your shipmen in place with a self load 20 foot shipping container and not a U Cube
2/ Your Name and box number please
3/ 31st July 2014 is good!
4/ Just a contact address is good for now so if you don’t have a residence address a hotel or company work address is good. You can email us the delivery address later on when you get there and find a place but Customs just need a contact address on the customs form.
5/ The date of arriving in Germany is good.
6/ Please keep key in safe or attached. Make sure safe is in middle of U Cube so its not extra heavy on one end!
We are excited to be moving you too! Good luck with your travels and have a safe flight over, cheers, The Moving Doctor.

Hello Anne-Lise, I would think our U Cube would be a good, safe option for you. I will get Peter in our office here to work out a price and email it over to you. Presume you are shipping fur coats and sweat shirts and not so much swim suits! Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Pat, yes you can ship a U Pod from Seattle to Boston. I’ll get Peter in our office to contact you and offer you some prices and options. It would take about 6-7 working days for transit time terminal to terminal. Thanks for thinking of UPakWeShip again! Cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Michael, we can send you a quote for a U Pod and U Crate and will do our best to keep the costs down. Pete will be in touch with some prices, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Kemal, I think our U Cube would work really well for you as you can just load everything up in there for a lump sum price door to door. I’ll get Peter in our office to contact you with some prices today, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Willie, we can ship one for you but it will probably cost more than the bed plus you would have to pay duties and taxes on it at about 30% of the value as well. If you would like a quote please complete our quick quote form but thinking at about $1500 probably not worth it! Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Diana, I’ll get Chris in our office to contact you by email and offer you some rates and options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Tony, I’ll get Pete at our Canada desk to email you with advice, suggestions and some rates. Many thanks The Moving Doctor

Hello Kosta, I love Dublin! What a cool place to move to. Actually we base our charges on volume and charge one price from our Chicago terminal and then an add on if you want us to collect from your front door. I’ll get Pete in our office to email you our latest prices and service options. Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Daniel, you can share a container load with others. It is offered by freight forwarders or shipping agents. They will load your items with other commodities to make up a full container load. The service you are looking for is called LCL or Less than Container Load. You will need to have all your items in a crate or shrink wrapped onto pallets to keep them safe. I suggest you call or email various freight forwarders in Guatemala and get some rates for shipping LCL to Oslo. Once it arrives you will have to pay port charges and customs clearance fees before you can collect your cargo.
Hope this helps, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Candace, Stephanie is our container manager so I’ll get her to email you the rates. We definitely will not be giving you the run around either! Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Rose, I would actually need to know where you are moving from to give you a price but if you only have 50lbs which presumably is like one extra suitcase, it would be cheaper to take it with you on the plane, even if you have to pay for excess baggage. You might also look into paying for the extra bag with air miles or may be upgrade your seat with air miles and that now gives you a larger allowance for carry on or checked baggage. Hope that helps and have fun in Reading, my sister used to live there so I know it well, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Clement, well without stating the obvious, the cheapest way is using one of UPakWeShip’s all inclusive to door services. We also give you the option of dropping off at one of out 88 drop off locations around the USA including 3 in NY so giving you a port to door and door to door service will be a pleasure. I’ll get Pete in our office here to email you with some rates and service options, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hello Lara, yes we handle this route and I’ll get Peter to email you to get a few more details so that he can give you some rates and service options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Joanne, I am pasting your comments here so I can answer them in order. Anything else don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll also ask Peter in the office to conform our rates and service on email to you. Cheers The Moving Doctor.
I have spoken to you earlier and have received some good information and assistance. We are moving from Omaha, Nebraska to Germany and I had a few more questions.
1. I think you stated that it takes 5 business days after the order is placed to receive the UCubes – is this correct or have I confused the time (sorry, it has been hectic here). Yes That’s Correct 🙂
2. My husband has 2 old swords worth probably $20 each. Would that cause a problem in customs? It possibly could cause delays and extra inspection so for the sake of $40 I suggest leaving them out!
3. How many business days in advance do we need to schedule a pick up time for the UCubes? 24 hours please Monday to Friday
4. What is the process after you pick up the UCubes? For example, the video was very good regarding tracking, etc. But I have read where the Cubes go through London and there is a VAT tax on the items? We do ship all the U Cubes etc through our hub in England first and that’s where we clear all European shipments through customs. Once that is done there are no further formalities to any EU country. As long as you declare on your customs form (C3) that we will email you, that you have lived outside of the European Community for the past 12 months, you are now moving your normal residency into Europe and all your belongings are more than 6 months old, there will be no duty or vat charged.
Could you please explain this more – such as how much is the tax if there is any, could there be a delay in the UCube reaching us in Germany, etc? As long as you declare as above there will be no delays and no extra charges. For more details about completing the customs form click here
5. My husband’s company is giving him a moving allowance. Do you or could you coordinate the payment with them? Absolutely, we are happy to invoice whom ever, as long as we get paid by someone we are very happy!

Hope this helps, you can also find a lot more information on our UPak TV page by clicking here.
Have a good day
The Moving Doctor

He;;o Steve, I will get Peter in our office to email you with some various options for part loads and Stephanie to give you a quote on a self load shipping container so you can compare prices and services and see what’s best for you. They will have to email you to see where you are going in UK as well. Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Elle, yes we do have our own packing crews in London. I am going to pass this over to Anthony in our London office to contact you by email and offer services and prices, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Tam, you certainly can. I will get Pete in our office here to send you some rates and service options. Have a look at the discounts available too if you drop your things off at our terminal down the road in Charleston. As we load containers from Charleston we do offer big discounts on all our services if you bring your things here. Just a thought! Anyway Pete will be in touch, cheers The Moving Doctor.

Hi Jeremy, I am just checking with the import manager of our UK office…..will be back in touch soon! Cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Sue, I’ll get our air and sea freight departments to email you some prices, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello, yes we do ship from Wales to the USA. I’ll get Chris Smith, The UK Manager to email you and introduce himself and find out a few more details and then he will be able to quote you some prices and give you some options, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello Cassie, the U Cube holds about 50 cubic feet, the U Crates 100 and 150 cubic feet, the U Pod nearly 200 cubic feet.
I’ll get Pete in our office to email you to find out where your moving from and to and he can then give you some suggestions and prices, but by the sound of it the U Cube would probably work best for you, cheers The Moving Doctor

Hello JoVonna, the U Cubes hold approximately 50 cubic foot of boxes and bits and pieces.I’ll get Pete in our office to email you to find out where your moving from and to and he can then give you some more information and prices, Cheers The Moving Doctor