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| Subject: | what is the most economic way to ship personal belongings back to the US. |
| Date: | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| Name: | kay |
| Message: | I need help shipping boxes personal belongings back to California. La Poste is very expensive. Could any of you give me advice? |
Replies Posted 6.
| Name | kristin king |
| Message |
The moving company terrapaq took my 500 dollars
deposit and never provided services or gave me any paperwork. As a result I had to move all my belongings by plane at the last minute. This company owes me 2000 euros. I advise to report the problems to the Police in the 9eme district as they have reports against this company. kristin king |
| Name | kristin king |
| Message |
they took my 500 dollars deposit and never
provided services or gave me any paperwork kristin king |
| Name | Susan |
| Message |
Do no even consider Terrapaq, and advise others to avoid them as well. The local sales person is charming and helpful. But once they have your money, it is almost impossible to actually speak to someone about your concerns. There was a two month delay on my shipment, with countless hassles and stresses.
The whole horrible experience finally ended in early July, after a week-long fight with the U.S. agent, who were holding my things "hostage" due to Terrapaq's non-payment. I had to threaten the U.S. agent with legal action in order to have my things released. No on needs this in their life. Moving is stressful enough, as is changing countries! |
| Name | Will |
| Message | Like the person above, we had a horrible experience with Terrapaq! Avoid them at all costs - what a nightmare. It took 4 months for our items to arrive, with all sorts of unexpected costs that we were forced to pay in order to get our stuff. |
| Name | Neil Darling |
| Message |
Good luck! It is a far from straightforward process...
I would scrub Terrapaq from that list unless you want no end of hassle. We have been without our worldly affairs now for almost a month. We were also charged on the volume measured by Terrapaq, which is 25% more than actually appeared on the manifest (i.e. 25% more than they actually paid for. So whoever you choose, make sure that they don't overcharge you in this way. One other tip - you will have no end of customs forms and the like to fill in. When you state your intentions for shipping stuff home, do not write "personal" as we did as apparently this is like an blank check for customs people. Use "repatriation" or something similar... Good luck, Neil |
| Name | Hebb |
| Message |
I agree the French post is rather expensive. Below is a list of several companies, I e-mailed for quotes. Many did not e-mail me back, but some did. Good luck. I found most of the companies through the fusac.org website and a Google search.
www.glocargo.com [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://www.imfrance.com/ [[email protected]] http://www.citymoving.co.uk/ http://www.lawlersremovals.co.uk/ |
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