Packaged for Delivery

The Santa Fe Relocation company is now my favorite moving team ever.  And those of you who know me, know I've moved a lot.  I have opinions about movers.  But they made the move easy.  It said so right on all their boxes.

They did a pre move survey and determined that we would fit into a 40 ft container.  When the packers showed up on Sunday morning, they looked around and said, "It's going to be tight."  The team leader had a very intense discussion with the guys in a language that I could only guess at, and they started packing.

During a container move, all the furniture is padded and wrapped up.  In essence, they custom make a box for every piece of furniture.  During this process, we realized what this team of packers was doing... they were utilizing every single square inch of interior space to transport 'soft' objects.  The shelves of each bookcase were stuffed with stacks of towels, blankets and pillows.  All negative space was filled with soft, fluffy things.

And it's a good thing we didn't have boxes and boxes filled with towels, blankets or pillows.  There would not have been room.

We FILLED the 40 ft container.  I don't know if you can tell in this photo but those two guys hardly have room for their feet to fit on the small edge left.  They crammed all our household goods into it, saving our king sized mattress for the end.  Then they powered that last box in.

During the last hour and a half they packed the truck, they tore one box apart and repackaged the contents into three smaller boxes.  One oddly shaped box had a corner purposefully crushed so it could be pushed up into the top of the shipment.  And two boxes were repackaged into a single one.  All out on the curb.  In an attempt to get it all to fit.

When they finally got the door to close and lock, they laughed, high fived and then opened the door to show how stuffed the container was and all stood around taking pictures with their cell phones.

They were a really good natured lot.

I am so thankful that they took the time to make it all fit.  In the overall scheme of things, crammed in equals safer and less damage due to shifting around.  So, I'll take a tightly packed container.

Now, the countdown to arrival in the US begins.  Thank you, Santa Fe Relocation!

--  Sandee Wagner