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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one wants hand painted porcelain plates or one oil painting. It’s more likely they were damaged when moving so the movers got rid of them.

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OP here. I have a lovely collection of antiques, and many of the items are museum-quality. The ten plates they stole had a value of about $4000.[/quote]

You can choose to trust people who are more than likely earning minimum wage to handle delicate sentimental or valuable small items that you could easily pack and move yourself or you can use common sense and pack and transport your valuables yourself.

I once used movers to pack my things, I let them empty my closets into wardrobe boxes, and pack up my kitchen, basic prints, and lamps etc., and to do the heavy lifting.

For my easy to move valuable and or sentimental items, artwork, delicate lamps, heirlooms, jewels etc., those items I boxed and moved myself. I would never have occurred to me to let them handle my valuable or sentimental items. So if you really needed to have these items moved because you couldn't do it yourself then you should have hired a separate company to inventory, ship and insure these items independently.

See point above these people aren't really being paid to care, no matter how nice they are, and further more if they could get a job doing anything else, i.e. a living wage, they probably wouldn't be in the box packing and heavy furniture moving industry, doing what donkeys do in other parts of the world. They are being paid to use their brawn to move your stuff from point A to point B.

Re the porcelain plates, the kind of guys who move stuff from A to B don't care about your plates or you art work. I'd put my money on they damaged them and they didn't want to lose their jobs so they just made them disappear. A minimum wage moving job may be the best they do, and who wants to lose their livelihood by admitting they broke someone's seemingly silly cheap crap.

And furthermore what kind of moron lets the same movers who pack up and move the families underwear, blenders, Pyrex dishes, and overstuffed couches, move anything of real value. See point above they work with niche shipping services to catalogue, insure and ship their valuable goods. Just saying.

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