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 | | From: | Arowana | | Subject: | Shipping from UK to SA | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:21:39 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | Can anybody recommend a good shipping company that I can use to transport
general household goods from London to Durban?
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| | From: | Peter H.M. Brooks | | Subject: | Re: Shipping from UK to SA | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:58:50 +0200 |
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| Arowana wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a good shipping company that I can use to transport
> general household goods from London to Durban?
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I've used Britannia from Bristol to Cape Town and they were very good -
they were very bad from Cape Town to New Zealand. So, if you use them,
make sure that you supervise the unpacking very carefully.
Also that remember the excess on insurance is in UK pounds, not Rand,
and is pretty steep. However, also remember that, despite you having
insurance, the shipping company is still obliged to take reasonable care
of your goods - if the insurance doesn't cough up (as they tend not to)
for everything damaged, stolen or lost then make sure that you get the
money from the shipper on grounds of negligence. You probably won't have
to sue, just make sure that they know that they are liable for
negligence and they'll pay.
--
All persons are deemed to have a _right_ to equality of treatment,
except when some recognised social expediency requires the reverse. And
hence all social inequalities which have ceased to be considered
expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of
injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how
they ever could have been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves
perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of
expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve
seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. The
entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions,
by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed
primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of an
universally stigmatized injustice and tyranny. So it has been with the
distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and
plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the
aristocracies of colour, race, and . -- J.S.Mill Chapter V.
Utilitarianism
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| | From: | spizz | | Subject: | Re: Shipping from UK to SA | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:03:47 +0200 |
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| > > Can anybody recommend a good shipping company that I can use to
transport
> > general household goods from London to Durban?
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> I've used Britannia from Bristol to Cape Town and they were very good -
> they were very bad from Cape Town to New Zealand. So, if you use them,
> make sure that you supervise the unpacking very carefully.
>
I also used Britannia from the UK last year and things got off badly when
the Edinburgh lot managed to leave a chair behind, which I eventually
received about 6 weeks after everything else. They also used a sub
contractor to deliver my stuff from CT to Swellendam and I'm surprised the
van got up Sir Lowries Pass. It was in a shocking state, inside and out, and
the 3 guys were certainly not trained in any way as the Britannia literature
states. More plucked off of a street corner in the local squatter camp and
promised 50 bucks for a days work. It also took me over 6 months to get a
R5000 deposit back and then it was with a lot of phone calls from my end.
Still, I got my things in one piece with nothing stolen, so mustn't grumble
hey?
Spizz
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| | From: | Peter H.M. Brooks | | Subject: | Re: Shipping from UK to SA | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:49:04 +0200 |
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| spizz wrote:
>> It also took me over 6 months to get a
> R5000 deposit back >
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I'm curious. How on earth did you get yourself into the position where
you pay the shippers a deposit? They've got all your stuff already, what
more security could anybody possibly believe is required!
--
"Me!--not at all," replied Mr. Knightley, rather displeased; "I do not
want to think ill of him. I should be as ready to acknowledge his
merits as any other man; but I hear of none, except what are merely
personal; that he is well-grown and good-looking, with smooth, plausible
manners." -- Emma, Jane Austen
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| | From: | spizz | | Subject: | Re: Shipping from UK to SA | | Date: | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:22:28 +0200 |
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| > >> It also took me over 6 months to get a
> > R5000 deposit back >
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> I'm curious. How on earth did you get yourself into the position where
> you pay the shippers a deposit? They've got all your stuff already, what
> more security could anybody possibly believe is required!
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LOL. It was a deposit payable to customs (in case we stole our car and never
paid the levy)handled by Britannia, who subsequently dragged their heels
trying to get it back. Probably because there was nothing in it for them.
Spizz
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