The joy of the shipping container arriving.
Last night, at 6.30pm our very last load of our UK lives arrived at our New Zealand home.
This is the third batch we have shipped over: the first was mine and hubbys household goods, shipped with John Masons once we sold our house. The second was the majority of my Parents household when they sold their house a few months later. This was the remainder of their stuff – the few things they needed to carry on living in the UK.
Of course when I saw “the few things” – what I really mean to say is that there was still enough stuff to fill half a 20ft container. That’s after we have shipped two full 20 ft containers already. And we got rid of a lot of stuff before we moved.
Now the scary part starts – trying to figure our where the hell to squeeze all this stuff.
This lot was shipped my Crown Relocations – who also handled my parents first container.
Again, we are hugely impressed with the service. More importantly, once again, not a whiff of the old “MAF Fees Scam” that is way too prevalent in the industry on the New Zealand side. This is where the New Zealand subcontractor charges you way more for the MAF inspection of your shipping than they are being charged by MAF.
The excuses given by these scam artists are varied and laughable.
We have never been scammed in this way – but many Migrants have – and some of these companies seem to have also bullied at least one forum owner into not allowing such facts to be aired on their forum.
John Masons used Allied Movers as their New Zealand subcontractor when we moved over here, and apart from some issues getting hold of the company to arrange delivery – we had no problems. If you use Crown as the shippers – it’s the same company on each side of the move – so you don’t even have to deal with a different company – and they have offices all over New Zealand. We were charged $150 for MAF to steam clean some outdoor furniture and tools – and that was it. A far cry from the hundreds of dollars that some migrants are charged for a MAF inspection that should cost around $100.
So once again – hats off to Crown Relocations. We had a great service, the stuff is all here, and we have had 1 broken glass. This takes our grand total for breakages over three container loads to:
3 broken glasses and a broken wooden box.
Ok, more unpacking to do. It’s like Christmas.
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3 Comments on The joy of the shipping container arriving.
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Fran on
Thu, 17th Sep 2009 10:52 pm
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Avalon on
Fri, 18th Sep 2009 10:29 am
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Moon over Martinborough on
Tue, 22nd Sep 2009 2:14 am
Yes we did three containers too – one had a car and what a load of XXXX we shipped. It’s currently in a lock up in Naenae as we had my bros family over for 6 weeks earlier this year. When i have time much of it will hit trade me! Job about to be dis establised tomorrow – ho hum!!!!
Wow Fran – Im really sorry to hear that 
( The job I mean – not having the family over for 6 weeks!)
Ill give you a bell when Im next in town – we can grab a coffee:) WOnt help you with a job – but it might take away some of the frustrations 
Hugs
Ah, yes, I still remember the joy of the day when our container from Japan arrived. All those great things we’d bought at Japanese temple markets for years and stuffed into the tiny spaces of a Tokyo apartment finally had space to be seen in a proper home. It really is like Christmas!
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