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Costs for cross-country move

rdawson808

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Originally Posted by randallr
Uhaul.

A quick estimate for me (in 2001) actually showed that renting a UHaul (or other) would have been more expensive. It was a combination of the mieage (expensive for UHaul) and how little stuff I had (cheaper to ship).


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moving back from seattle i packed my car with the more important things and then filled up a couple of large boxes with the less important things and mailed them via usps. they arrived eventually
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Originally Posted by shellshock
moving back from seattle i packed my car with the more important things and then filled up a couple of large boxes with the less important things and mailed them via usps. they arrived eventually
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Oh yeah, you can send all your books (if you're like me and own many hundreds) and other hefty crap that isn't at all fragile via book/media rate and it costs virtually nothing. They say it takes 4 weeks cross-country, but I've done it twice and the boxes always arrived in about 2 weeks.

I even filled out the spaces in the boxes with sweatshirts and stuff I knew I wouldn't need (and wouldn't particularly miss if the box was damaged).


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Last time we moved in Ca we used Republic, they are San Diego movers... Our move was perfect from beginning to end. George came out to give us an estimate and Ricky and his team made sure our move across town went off without a glitch. We're moving again in 3 months and hope to have the same team!
 

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I've done it twice. I had to move a pile of tools and similar junk.

First time I rented a truck, with a car trailer. It cost almost 2k for about a thousand miles.

Next time, I bought a F350 pickup. About $2800 after taxes (see my how to drive a stick thread from a while back).

I would buy a truck, move. then sell it.
 

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I've used Palmer Detroit movers, even though they aren't from CA they operate nationally. - Palmer employees were very careful with our belongings and very fast at packing. Everything happened as planned, very nice.
 

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