Monday, June 14, 2004

Stuff

The stuff arrived early on Saturday morning. Here are the truck, and Tara posing with our very nice movers Mike and Tony.




Mike and Tony were unbelievably helpful and conscientious, especially after the long delay we had waiting for our stuff. They even stayed a few minutes longer than necessary to help me stack the dryer on the washing machine!


They did tell us that they almost refused the shipment - we are guessing that the lengthy delay resulted from another driver’s refusal. You see, the United agent in St Louis underestimated the load by a good ton. The drivers, from what I gather, are semi-independent contractors who have to make their own ends meet. The fact that the shipment weighed a great deal more than the payment locked in by the agent’s poor estimate made our shipment very unattractive to drivers. It took some movement from on high (spurred, no doubt, by our instance that they reimburse us in advance for the hotel) to convince Mike and Tony to ship our stuff. Incidentally, Bill and Adele’s move was also underestimated, and also arrived late.



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