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TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on October 28, 2021, 03:22:15 am --- find a company at your end that does moving internationally ...

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Actually it is a good idea. Pursuing it now.
googling 'international moving companies' is quite different to 'international freight forwarders'.
There are of course multiple choices. Working through them asking for quotes.

Someone:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on October 28, 2021, 04:23:41 am ---
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on October 28, 2021, 03:22:15 am ---
--- Quote from: TerraHertz on October 28, 2021, 03:17:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Someone on October 28, 2021, 12:31:19 am ---Having done blind and/or unaccompanied moves:
Hire a moving company to do it! Sounds obvious but the larger "house moving" companies do this sort of thing[snip]
All taken care of for you. Its amazing how cheap the container movements are when you don't mind waiting.

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Got any suggestions for an actual company that you used before? URL or contact details please. Several leads I've been given elsewhere turn into briar patches because I was just given a name, but there were company mergers, etc since.
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Yes, if you haven't already tried this, find a company at your end that does moving internationally and let them set it up. They will have contacts and associates for whom the deal will be somewhat normal, instead of some random guy on the phone from across the globe.
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Actually it is a good idea. Pursuing it now.
googling 'international moving companies' is quite different to 'international freight forwarders'.
There are of course multiple choices. Working through them asking for quotes.
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lol, well, you got there in the end. As you note above, any experience even from just a few years back is moot with the constant merging/changing of these companies. Although its pretty hard to stuff up piles of paper expect binders on their ends/sides and ripped binding holes as boxes will end up rotated.

daqq:

--- Quote ---That's completely impractical (for many reasons) but also fails to meet my primary objective. Which is to preserve the physical documents for posterity. (And future improved scanning technology.)
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While I do understand your preference, and that having the documents scanned and printing them out at your location might the 'bad' option, it's still better than nothing. Just keep it on the table as a last resort option?

And yeah, scans do suck most of the time, but they can also be done properly. Oh, you'll love this: http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library-download.html

james_s:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on October 27, 2021, 12:04:20 pm ---Would if I could, but cannot. Our lovely Oz government won't allow us to leave if not kill-jabbed. Which I'm not and won't be.

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Ok well that's just stupid, and absurd hyperbole too. Kill jabbed? Give me a break, how many hundreds of millions of doses have been administered without issues? Having just got my third Pfizer recently I really struggle to even comprehend why some people make such a HUGE stink out of something so trivial. Just put on your big boy pants and get the damn shot like everyone else and then you can forget about it, it won't hurt you, it's a massive fight over a nothing burger. Frankly I don't think I'll ever understand, I got my first two jabs ~8 months ago, it took a few minutes, my arm was a little sore for a day or two, then it was over and done and on with life, and I'm just dumbfounded that there are still a few folks acting like it is this huuuuuuuuuuuuge deal.  :-// Frankly I can only assume it's just people pushing back for no other reason than they feel like someone is telling them what to do, so they're going to cut off their own nose just to spite their face. I've got a friend who is on the verge of throwing away his career over it and I've decided I just don't care, if that's the hill he wants to die on that's his right, meanwhile the rest of us have just gotten on with life and the whole vax thing is in the rearview mirror. We didn't die, we didn't get sick, no bits fell off, no new bits have sprouted, it's a huge stink over nothing.

TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: daqq on October 28, 2021, 06:20:05 am ---
--- Quote ---That's completely impractical (for many reasons) but also fails to meet my primary objective. Which is to preserve the physical documents for posterity. (And future improved scanning technology.)
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While I do understand your preference, and that having the documents scanned and printing them out at your location might the 'bad' option, it's still better than nothing. Just keep it on the table as a last resort option?

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Sometimes I'm stunned at the completely delusional things people say seriously, as if they really think they are being practical.
Did you skip the info-doc? Didn't notice the VOLUME of material? That pile goes back 15 feet deep, all like the visible front in the pics. And btw, some of it is real old and historical.

What's the #1 problem? It's getting them out of there by the deadline. Talk of 'scanning' is bullshit. The only fallback is to extend the deadline for pickup. I expect this to have to happen one way or another.

Please stop with the 'scan them' crap. You actually think 'having the documents scanned' is even conceivably possible? Some kind of good idea?
And that after they're packed and containerised (by the deadline, or extended dealine), then the best next step would be to store them somewhere in the USA and pay 'someone' to scan them? (After sorting, cataloging, restoring, de-duping, indexing...)
Instead of just shipping them, which is totally easy from that point.

You can't be serious. And yet you sound as if you are being serious.
This 'scan everything' reflex is so common, but so totally whacked... it's as if there is some kind of induced mass halucination.


--- Quote ---And yeah, scans do suck most of the time, but they can also be done properly.
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Into PDF? We will never agree. Also the 'screened background with overlaid text/lines' problem is still not solved. Not to mention huge foldouts, super-fine detail, thick volumes with rigid spines, thin paper with visual bleedthrough, very faint/faded ink, and a hundred other practical issues.


--- Quote ---Oh, you'll love this: http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library-download.html

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Interesting. Also ironic. Not just that electronic docs won't last or be accessible long in a grid-down scenario, but the _first_ listed topic is Accounting.

Back on topic. Turns out a lot of international home moving companies don't have commercial import/export licences. Which are needed in this instance. But some do. Awaiting responses.

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