The container arrives

So, finally the container arrived, two weeks after the first estimate. It was first processed in Gdynia by the customs, but the real processing took place in Wrocław. We didn’t have to be personally  present at the customs office as it was handled by the DTA customs services agency  and  we just waited for the stuff to arrive at our apartment. It took about four hours in Wrocław to process the shipment, then some three hours to unload it. The only problem with the customs was the wording on our declaration where we stated that the things had been our property for more than six months. They wanted us to correct that so that we also state that we used the stuff for more than six months. My wife provided them with the corrected declaration the next day. I have a fealing that the customs officers just felt obliged to find some problem.

The moving company that served us on this side of the ocean was the Polish branch of ABC Ricard  Worldwide Moving. The truck that brought our container was unable to go through the gate of our apartment complex. I thought this might be a serious problem, but they just parked some 300 meters away and brought the boxes on a small van. An hour later another van with additional two people joined them to speed things up. There was no extra charge for this additional work. I can definitely say that I recommend this company.

I couple minor things went missing in the whole ordeal – my sons soccer ball,  two kids sledges and the table legs. While I didn’t care about the ball and the sledges, the missing table legs were quite annoying. Fortunately two days later the ABC Ricard branch manager called me that they found the legs and will be shipping them overnight. They had been put in some corner of one of the vans and forgotten. We should get them today.