“stay away” warning for Olympia Moving & Storege
I can give you a “stay away” warning for Olympia Movers in the US Northeast. They “handled” (read: completely bungled) my packout for CH this week:
(1) not COVID-19 friendly: I had different people every day for five days, and they would work other sites in between (for example, T was at site A on Monday, with me T/Th, and site C on Wednesday and back at A on Friday) - so I (and husband and kids) was/were directly exposed to 20 and probably indirectly to about 80. Also, never saw ANYBODY wash or sanitize their hands and about a third refused to wear masks - including the entire crew of 6 on Friday
(2) They are *bullies* and don’t listen to packing instructions.
- I knew there was a possibility we were over on both air and sea, so I asked them to make sure that they packed all parts of each item together and not mix them up with other things so I could make decisions. They completely ignored me! So I will be getting the legs of our mini- trampolines in our air shipment because they are packed in with bedding but the tops of the trampolines are in sea.
- they did what was convenient for THEM - so insisted on loading storage first, then air, then sea. Normal order is air, sea, storage...so you can pivot and put things in storage if you have to!
- They tried (and failed) to load sea all in one day so were there till 9PM Friday night.
- They forgot to load our only kitchen/dining table in sea and were going to send it to storage and were sending stuff I’d marked as likely storage if it didn’t fit in sea because that was easier for them to do.
(3) they are rude - instead of trying to correct their bad judgments, they just yelled and cursed at me.
(4) they are unprofessional- everything is badly labeled and I now have no idea what’s in my sea shipment vs what THEY decided I don’t need and have sent to storage. I am pretty sure I saw parts to a bed on the storage part and other parts of same bed on sea...
(5) they are sloppy - at the end they weren’t even wrapping or padding furniture, just hurling it on their overflow truck so they could go home.
So...don’t use them. I’m working with my (third party, work-hired) move coordinator to try to get this fixed but if you had booked directly with them and this happened you’d be SOL. These guys actually expect me to trust them to reload and decide what goes sea and what goes storage! And no matter what now all my shipments are delayed and I’m going to have to take a day off work next week and drive to their warehouse and oversee reloading because I cannot trust them at all.
July 19, 2020
Unprompted review