We had arranged with the movers to be in first thing on Monday morning to pack us up and clear everything out prior to out move to Rome for my 2 year stint at the university there. Our place was in a mess as were still in the middle of organizing a million different things. My study was a mass of papers, computers, computer parts, cables and wires. The movers obviously had instructions from their office to move everything. And that’s exactly what they did. These movers systematically picked up and packed every single scrap of paper, cable, wire and clip.
At the other end in Rome 2 months later our container arrived. New movers, same system. These movers carefully unpacked every single item, no matter how small, and tried their best to reinstall it in its correct place in my new study. I’ll say this for them, both sets of movers had good imaginations, especially the movers in Rome. Most of the very small items were placed in an ashtray on my desk and larger unidentifiable items were placed in the waste basket under the desk. I guess the movers were making a point!