I'd be interested in the household goods part of it. I don't live near a seaport, so am trying to wrap my head around the idea of loading a shipping container in my driveway... then??? Thanks.

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We had a company deliver a container to our home. We hired a moving company to load it. Our shipper was "
Ship to Costa Rica" ran by Charles Zeller. The whole experience was a daunting one. We only had 4 hours to load it once the container arrived so we had to coordinate that with the movers who loaded for us. Anything over 4 hours you pay a lot extra per hour as the driver is waiting.
If you take any advice from us that is worth taking, please get the insurance to cover all your things.
We didn't and regret it.
If you take insurance you pay much more for shipping as the cost is based on the amount you insure.
We lost some things going over, some broken and some just missing. When we moved back we lost a lot more through abuse by the shipper in repackaging from the ship container to the freight carrier who delivered back to our home. It has been a very disappointing time. Since we had no insurance we were reduced to being reimbursed at 60 cents per pound of the damaged items. It took the shipper, Mr. Zeller, 4 months just to agree to compensate us but we are still waiting on payment.
If you want further details I would be glad to respond to a private message.

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