Moving, not today then

September 24, 2004

Well. Didn’t even have to wait until Sunday. It is early morning and as expected, the container won’t be delivered today. I was really looking forward to leaving the apartment and getting all our gear but it was not to be, very disappointing. At least this will make the holiday packing easier; we have very few clothes to choose from. The container has cleared customs in the paperwork part but it had to go to Utrecht and would be delivered to Kralingen on the way back to Rotterdam. It is all to do with the location of the moving coy’s distribution centre, it happens to be in Utrecht. We have now found out that the company policy is not to deliver direct from the wharf but that all containers have to go to their warehouse in Utrecht to be cleared (overnight) then delivered. Another step we weren’t informed of. Because of the strike on the wharf yesterday, there is a backlog.

The container has been here for two weeks now.

The moving company are going to store the container/goods whilst we are away and we will arrange delivery (sometime before Christmas hopefully). About an hour after the first phonecall to say the container wouldn’t be delivered, we received another from the moving company about payment of storage. Typical cloggies, never mind they have screwed up they are more concerned about who (not them) is going to pay for it. They said that they will keep the goods in the container for storage rather than unload, fair enough, but that given Stuart works for PONL could he please arrange that they don’t get charged for it!!! It’s their fault.