Law School Discussion

People who used UPS... do they deliver right to your apartment if you live in a highrise?  Also, what kind of stuff was broken - just fragile stuff or things that would have to be thrown down the stairs to break?

I am taking all my crap... I can't live without any of it!  Including my stuffed giraffe.

I would say with UPS - don't ship anything fragile.  If you can't live with it breaking - don't ship it.  Your mom's China - take with you (and for that matter don't put under the plane either).  Don't ship anything that if they lost it (fragile or not) you'd be heartbroken.  Make sure you insure everything with UPS - if you ship your cd player, put the insurance on it in case it breaks.  I used to work for UPS and would still use them for most of my shipping.  With the amount of boxes that came through, I was always surprised at how little broke.  Of course, some of the stuff that broke was really important to people (mom's china), but to a certain extent, if it is that priceless, I don't think it should have been shipped.  You know in advance that things can be broken.  If you can't be the one that something breaks, then don't ship.

Make sure you keep your reciepts for insurance/shipping/etc.  If something does happen to your boxes, you need the reciepts just in case UPS/FEDEX/whoever you go through needs to "prove" you had insurance.

if you have a lot of stuff, i've heard good things about http://www.upack.com/

basically, they park a tractor trailer in front of your place, and you pack as much stuff as you want into it. they charge you by how many linear feet you use. then they fill the truck with something else, drive it to the destination, unload the other stuff, and then park it in front of your new place for you to unpack.

My wife and all of her crap. I could fit all of my stuff in my Toyota. Her stuff will take up 2 U-hauls.