Any Suggestions on Shipping Furniture from Jersey to CA?

I need to ship some furniture and paintings from New Jersey to the West Coast and would appreciate suggestions. I need someone to crate/package the furniture and someone to ship it. It%26#39;s just a small table and chair and some oil paintings so we don%26#39;t want to hire a moving company.

Does anyone have any recommendations on companies to contact? Has anyone had any experience doing this?

Thanks

Any Suggestions on Shipping Furniture from Jersey to CA?

I%26#39;d contact UPS and ask them, but I%26#39;ll tell you, I have a family who moved to Florida from NJ, and they found it easier to sell their old furniture and buy new in Florida. And that%26#39;s a fraction of the distance!

Any Suggestions on Shipping Furniture from Jersey to CA?

I was thinking the same thing. :-)

After having moved a dozen times since graduating college, if I had to do it over again, I%26#39;d just buy Ikea furniture in every new city I move to. The cost would probably be about the same and less aggravation. Luckily most of my moves were paid by employers.

Thanks for your thoughts but this is a different type of move. It%26#39;s my Mom%26#39;s stuff, some of which we%26#39;re selling and some we want to take home (to CA) with us. She%26#39;s moved to a place which doesn%26#39;t fit all her furniture.

So, I still need a crater and shipper.

Try a UPS Store. They used to be Mailboxes Etc.

I remember seeing TV commercials about this.

If the items are too big, I don%26#39;t think you%26#39;ll have any choice but to call a moving company.

First of all, the cost of shipping is likely to be more than the cost of replacing the furniture, so ship it only if it really has sentimental value.

A year ago, I had a similar problem. After my father died, I wanted to ship just a room full of furniture and a couple of oil paintings from his house in New Jersey to my home in San Francisco. This was too small a shipment for a household moving company--their minimum fees were huge for a coast-to-coast move! A helpful moving company referred me to Packaging %26amp; Shipping Group, a company based in Edison, New Jersey. They picked up the items and shipped them to my house in San Francisco. They wrapped everything carefully in styrofoam sheets, shrink wrap, and thick cartons, and then put the cartons on wood pallets. A California trucking firm delivered the pallets to my garage--they unloaded everything on the sidewalk, and it was up to me to unpack the furniture and carry it upstairs to my flat. That was ok, since there were only a couple of heavy items. The cost was far less than what a mover would charge. There was absolutely no damage to anything, and this furniture is fragile and easily scratched. I was very pleased with their price and service. Their website is http://www.psgi.com/mainframe.html

I also shipped some boxes of smaller items via UPS, and their price was very reasonable, even less than Packaging %26amp; Shipping Group. So that%26#39;s another alternative, but I expect that the chair would be too big to ship by UPS, and you would have to carefully package everything yourself.

If you can, I would suggest also bringing some small items with sentimental value. Generally, you can take two 50-pound suitcases on a flight, plus a carry-on bag which they do not weigh. Over the course of four trips, that was enough capacity for me to bring a full set of dishes and a bunch of clothes, books, and linens. Because of their weight and fragility, the dishes always went into the carry-on bag.

A moving company will take pretty much any size shipment.

What will happen is that if you don%26#39;t have enough to fill a truck is that as the big moving truck goes cross country it will stop and pick up more stuff at different towns. You won%26#39;t have much control of when you get your stuff as when the entire truck is your stuff.

This is what happened to me several times.

I used Yellow Freight

to ship a bunch of sentimental stuff including a small table, a rug, and a tall floor lamp from Florida to Pennsylvania.

I packed everything myself and they would only deliver to the curb, but they were fairly inexpensive.

You can ask them about crating.