The arrival of stuff and where to put it

This is about a quarter of the stuff that was delivered today, and about half way through them unpacking the majority of the boxes.  We have now moved four times in the last three years, with two of those being international relocations.  At this point, I feel like a freaking expert on relocation companies and their services.

These guys today were very good; just as efficient as you'd expect a Japanese moving company to be.  Every corner and walkway in the house was covered to protect it from damage while they were carrying things in and the unloading of the trucks was incredibly detailed.  All the furniture came in, then a small break, followed by all 85 of the boxes with me standing in the kitchen marking the numbers off the inventory and pointing to a room, then it was lunch time.  After lunch, seven guys tore through all of the boxes unpacking everything.  Not putting things away, but at least unpacking them, and sometimes putting away when it was obvious.  The end result is an entire house offloaded and unpacked in less than 5 hours.

Unlike every other crew we have worked with in the past three years, this one did not have the dimwit that is always responsible for breaking something, or leaving entire drawers unpacked.  When we moved into the San Jose house, one of the packers left the entire bathroom untouched and got a beating from the crew foreman.  Moving to Sydney was just a nightmare because of one guy primarily who thought it was super OK to stack dishes together with no padding, although that entire crew kind of sucked and damaged a lot of our furniture as well as being slow, over-priced and bitchy.  The move within Sydney had a guy who liked to just put boxes randomly throughout the house, so a year later we would still be finding kitchen boxes in the garage, and I had to go back to the old house to retreive a few items they missed.  This time, the packers in Sydney were about to leave a few things unpacked, like entire drawers full of clothes in our closet, until Jae caught them.  We also are missing a bed ... an entire bed.  We received the boy's mattress, but no box spring, headboard, or runners.  It's not on the inventory for the items leaving Sydney, and definitely isn't still in the house there, so they must have put it in with the storage items  Dimwits.