Credit Where It’s Due: PODS, A Great American Company
Most people who know me know that I get pretty excited about certain great American products/companies (KrispyKreme, Quiznos, Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, etc.), and by the same token, pretty steamed at companies that are famously incompetent in my dealings with them (Dell, La-Z-Boy, etc.). Well, I’ve just finished dealing with a great company, called “PODS”, for “Portable On-Demand Storage”. This is the way to move, period. I doubt I’ll ever consider U-Haul or one of its similar competitors again.
Here’s the way it works: you figure out how many Pods you need in order to move (for us, it was two—exactly). Pods are 8′ high by 8′ wide by 16′ deep, by the way. Pods are ground-level containers; no need for ramps. They drop off your Pod, and you have a month before their final pickup. So, you take your time loading, and then you can take your time unloading. They drive it to your destination (and thus you don’t have to worry about driving some big truck, or paying for gas for that truck, or figuring out how to get your car to where you’re going, or what have you). The price they quote is all-inclusive (well, if you want to, you can buy boxes/pads/etc. from them). For us to move to GA via U-Haul would have taken a big truck and a smaller one; together, they’d have cost a good bit more than the two Pods did. Frankly, it was a no-brainer.
So if you ever need to move, hopefully you’ll connect with Pods.
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2 Responses to “Credit Where It’s Due: PODS, A Great American Company”
Do you get a C.H.I.P.S. escort with your P.O.D.S.?
Hefe ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 5:13 pm
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I have some good friends with A LOT of stuff and they moved over the summer and used PODS (and a big truck) and as someone who got roped into both the loading AND the unloading of the big truck – I was sure happy to not have had to deal with the PODS load of stuff, too. Good call on this one.
gurufrisbee ~ Nov 20, 2006 at 6:13 pm