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Packing

Posted on 21. May, 2002 @ 2:49 pm by harvey in Culture Views: 56

Slacker to the very end…

I better start packing now. Most of what I have is just books, clothes, cd’s, and my laptop, so I don’t expect to have much trouble moving.

I went down to a shipping company in our area called PakMail. I asked some questions about shipping stuff to Tokyo, they sold me some boxes, and now I’m filling them up. I heard that cardboard boxes lose a lot of their stability once they have been used once, so it’s better to buy new ones than getting ones from the grocery store or something.

Of course the shipping company selling the boxes told me this, so they could be full of crap…

Through this company it costs $5.50 per kg to mail stuff to Narita Airport. Apparently if you go through the US Postal Service they have something called M-BAG where you can ship boxes of books for $1.00 per kg.

PakMail warned me that lots of international students at my university have used that before and had their stuff lost or damaged upon arrival.

Again, they could just be giving me the run-around to make me use their service instead… but I’m sufficiently scared. I don’t wanna lose my books!

The packages will be sent to Narita Airport actually, so I’ll have to find some way to pick them up after they arrive… I could have it delivered to someones door, but that would cost an extra 60 bucks or something crazy.

Man. I gotta get busy…

Man. This is frikkin’ insane. I didn’t think I had this much to pack… But there is so much I have to figure out what to take to Japan, and what to leave in Iowa…

Decisions decisions…

-Harvey