New video prepared by the Expectativa guys about the preparation of the shipments. This time it is centered on the labels. We talk about how to use them correctly in the shipment to facilitate their arrival. And it is that "it would not be the first package that instead of being received in Spain, appears in Saipan".
We hope that the video is helpful for whenever you need to label a new shipment.
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Shipping to USA with some tips that may be in other posts, but here you'll find what you frequently ask. We wish that this tips about shipping to USA are useful for all the readers.
You are moving, either within the country or abroad, so you have to select and prepare everything that you will carry. Chances are that you go rent flat available with furniture and appliances, or that you prefer to buy them once you arrive. But how should you bring everything else? Clothes, books, vinyl collection, storage, bike maybe, etc. Too much to carry as baggage and too little to call a moving company. And thinking about how much a shipment like this will cost at customs office. Well if you are in a similar situation, even if you want to return to your country after living in another one, read on, as we will explain how to do a Personal Effects Shipment.
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We have already spoken about the previous steps to ship your documents or packages. We also wrote a couple of special posts: sending suitcases and protecting your fragile items. Now that you have properly requested a quotation and after wrapping and protecting your fragile items, the most awaited moment arrives, the pick up. It is one of the most important processes in shipments so you must consider a few tips to make this quick and efficient.
We keep on talking about the preparation of a shipment in our Shipping Handbook. Although we are already have posted about preparing the boxes and suitcases, there is always stuff to be better explained in detail. So we want to give special relevance to what is the step that requires most care: preparing a shipment with fragile objects.
In this blog we have already told you how to ask for a budget and how to pack up and protect a shipment, so now it is time to tell you something about shipping luggage. We always recommend boxes instead of suitcases, because of its numerous advantages already recollected by us in other blog posts. Nevertheless, we know that now it is the time for Holidays, long trips and returns with unexpected luggage, so we understand that, sometimes it is inevitable to ship a suitcase, so that is why we are doing this special post about shipping luggage.
Our customers always ask a lot of questions about handling a shipment that we have to answer. All this doubts are very common and we like to clear them, as we understand that our services are used very few times by individual customers.
So we decided to stand in front of our classroom blackboard (in this blog) and give you all the tips and recommendations to make your shipments an easy task. We want to give further information than the one that we offer in our website about FAQ. Today we start at the first step: Requesting a Quotation.