From: dianne@dianne.b24a.ingr.com (Dianne Ferrans)
Subject: Re: Good moving company? 
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:56:41 GMT

In article <6776.2B4F7B4E@umagic.FIDONET.ORG>, Dee.Gardner@f16.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Dee Gardner) writes:
|>  -=>As the dragons flew off, Keith Thigpen was heard to remark to All
|>  KT> I'm going to be moving in a couple or three weeks, and want to find a
|>  KT> good moving company. I'm going to box everything, so I'm just looking 
|>  KT> for strong backs to carry everything.
|> 
|>  KT> Has anyone had any good experiences in this area?
|> 
|> DO NOT USE BEKINS!!!!  I used them last year and I had a HORRIBLE experience!
|> 
|> Duncan says Allied out of Georgia is good but NOT to use the local office.
|> 
|> Good luck.
|> 

I recently moved, and asked this same net question.  Following were some
replies:

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From hoeftr  Mon Nov 23 10:55:42 1992 remote from infonode.ingr.com
Subject: Moving/Movers

	Dianne, 

	I saw your posting last week concerning movers.  My family moved from
	Indiana this past summer and we used Dixie Moving & Storage in 
	Huntsville ( an Allied M & S co.).  We have moved 4 times in the 
	last ten years and DIxie has provided the best service of all movers
	we've used.  BTW, Intergraph is Dixie's biggest customer, so they
	tend to treat you right.

	If you have ??? please feel free to call me at 544-3622.  I'm on-site
	out here at Marshall Space Center.

	Roger ...
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Subject: movers
To: dianne@dianne.b24a.ingr.com (Dalman)

No on covan movers.

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:39:42 -0600
From: dvr@fedsrus.b15.ingr.com (Doug Roberts)
To: dianne@dianne.b24a.ingr.com
Subject: moving co. recommendations

Hi DIanne,

You didn't say in your posting where you live, but I have a
recommendation for North American in Decatur.  We moved to decatur
a little over a year ago using their service.  I have moved many
times with many different moving companies and they were by far
the best.  Very little damage to our stuff, very helpful and
friendly service, and a very good job.  The folks there also
own their own franchise and are willing to talk, give sound
advice, and even dicker a bit on price.  Highly recommended!

Good luck with the move.
Doug Roberts, b15

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Author Note:  I eventually went with North Alabama Movers, 837-6600,
they were pretty o.k., except they forgot their tools (to disconnect
wash machine & such) Fortunatelly we had some...and they left a 
small dent in one of our sterio stands.  That was the only damaage done
to _anything_! most movers charged $52/hr for 2 men, $68/hr for 3 men.

These guys worked pretty hard, we had a full 2-bedroom apt. and
it took 'em about 6, 6.5 hours to load, drive over, and unload.
Worth every penny to save me breaking _my_ back or our friends
getting hurt carrying sofa-beds down a flight of stairs (we were on
the 2nd story)  We bought 'em lunch and provided drinks (sodas)
and they would take a 3-4 minute break about every 1.5 hours for
cigs.  

Go to office Depot and buy one of those packing-tape machines (a handle
and a cutter on a roll of tape, about $10.00 and includes 2 rolls of
tape).  Also worth every penny. (buy extra tape) 

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