Pack and send - has anyone used them???

I'm looking at returning back to the UK at the end of the year. I don't have a lot of stuff so I'm looking at shipping 6-8 boxes back. I live in rural SA so it's going to be expensive arranging to send this door to door. I was thinking of sending my boxes via Pack and send by dropping them off at the location myself. Has anyone used them and how did they find them?

I have used Pack and Send once only and that was when I was sending items from Queensland to Western Australia as I sorted out a friend's Estate following his untimely death. I found them incredibly helpful and efficient, and everything arrived back in WA with no damage or breakages. It was expensive, but it was the cheapest option available at the time.

However, have you looked at Move Cube? Apparently you can hire different sized Cubes and a lot of people on PIO have used them and been satisfied with the service.

Use Anglo Pacific or their partners in Aus

I sent approx 15 boxes over with them from the UK, everything was in tact.

Then I moved interstate and moved the same stuff with Pack and Send....every box had something broken in it

Use Anglo Pacific or their partners in Aus

 

I sent approx 15 boxes over with them from the UK, everything was in tact.

 

Then I moved interstate and moved the same stuff with Pack and Send....every box had something broken in it

thing is with some of the shippers they only class within a 30 kilometre radius of the CBD as being delivery or pick up free any distance over that adds more dollars

Also take a look at Seven Seas, you can get an online quote from them to ship boxes.

I would also recommend move cube. They might not deliver a cube to you - they wouldn't deliver one to me as I lived to far from Perth, so, I borrowed a trailer and we drove it to their depot and put it in the cube ourselves. It arrived earlier than estimated and everything was in perfect condition.

We used PSS moving to Australia in 2012, they were not too bad. We did have a couple of breakages (approx. $300 worth) but had used Insureyourmove and they paid out without much bother. We moved back this year and as we dumped most of our furniture we did not have a full container so Chose MoveCube (Seven Seas) & were not happy with performance see following. Prices were similar to other removals firms & grace brothers quote was similar with them packing.

Plus points

Load your own MoveCube (Ply wood crate). -Peace of mind although this will not suit every one

Hopefully belongings do not need to be opened & examined before they are received at destination.

(This is maybe debatable as customs may access but ours seemed untouched from us packing).

Similar price to a removals firm whom complete packing and supply packing materials

Negative points

Move cube was supplied for 90 min (not 3 hrs) as had other jobs on the day, (although this was sufficient it was rushed and we did not have time to check through the property before trailer departed, later found quite a few things which should have been packed & so had to be disposed of).

Goods did not leave Australia for over seven weeks after collection.

71 - 87 days is quoted as expected delivery time but read the small print, this is from full payment which we made 4 days after collection and other exclusions. Our goods were collected on 27th May and eventually delivered on 6th Sept. Overall time of 104 days which was a long time to live out of a suitcase (91 days by Seven seas calculations!). This cost us a considerable amount as items such as clothing for a wedding which we had expected to have arrived had to be replaced.

Poor communication, information not updated unless asked for. Call backs not made after regular inquiries over the period of delivery. (Excluding one assistant _Wendy in the UK).

more poor communication on site inspection, not made on time - call backs not made following enquiries & eventually told we did not even need to be present after we had stayed in all morning !

Overall service was pretty poor and not really needed on top of the stress of moving around the World again.