[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by kathyspear

We have moved a zillion times (from CA to the East Coast, from PA to FL, and many local moves in between). I have never had a single thing broken or damaged until I used pods to move from PA to FL.

I am fanatical about packing all my stuff into boxes. We used professional movers to fill them up north and unpack them down here. The thing about pods, though, is after they are filled they are raised and lowered by a crane a number of times and stuff gets tossed about.

In our case the pods were stored at their warehouse for a couple weeks, which required lifting them up and down with the crane multiple times. At the final location they are again lifted and lowered with a crane. As a result of all that raising and lowering of the pods things were broken (and our pods were filled to the max so there was little space for stuff to be jostled around.)

Even if we hadn't stored them for a while the pods would have been raised and lowered several times before they ended up in our driveway. Compare this to items that are moved by moving van, in which things are walked onto the truck and then stay at that level throughout the move. Personally, I would never use pods again except to move relatively non-breakable stuff like couches, chairs, and mattresses.

Just our experience. Good luck with your move.

kathy

PS -- FWIW, I strongly advise you to think twice (or more) about every single thing you plan to move down here. Most of us bring way too much stuff and regret it.

In the history of the villages nobody moving here ever decided they took too little