How hard can it be? You give your stuff to someone in one place, you move house, it get's delivered to your new place. Admittedly, in this case, one house was in Israel and one was in Romford, UK, but the principle is the same.
The container arrived in Felixstowe on the 19th October, because there had been a strike in Israel. No-one bothered to tell us it had been delayed there over a month before it was shipped.
Once we had the letter from the receivers, we thought "okay, it's nearly here. We'll finally have a bed to sleep on, warm clothes and all the stuff that we can't even remember we packed".
We waited. Then we waited a bit more and then we phoned up.
Apparently the receiver was owed money by the shippers and, as security, had held all the containers that the shippers had stuff in. Now I think that that is actually illegal, to withhold my goods when they are owed money by someone else, but that will be another story.
After pressure from the Israel side, to the shippers paid enough money to the receivers for them to agree to release our stuff. Everyone lets out a sigh and relaxes...for about a minute. When can our stuff be delivered? In another couple of weeks!
We've weathered strikes, financial problems, general incompetence and what hits us at the final leg....."we don't have a team in your area for another couple of weeks". Is that my problem? Have we not suffered enough with this farce? Just get your fingers out and deliver our stuff!!
I'm not naming and shaming yet, but please, if you're thinking of shipping stuff from Israel to UK, feel free to ask for names...
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