27 Jun
2013
27 Jun
'13
8:47 a.m.
Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
Try finding a way to move any large object "on
the cheap" when you
can't go get it yourself. That's a problem I -- without a driver's
license, due to a physical disability -- have encountered, multiple
times. One's only real options when you can't just up and pick
something up is:
1. Shipping it. ("Well, looks like I'm going to have to sell my
kidneys to ship it!")
2. Paying a friend/acquaintance to get it for you (basically, like
shipping it with slightly less exorbitant fares, and probably better
handling... but only if you find someone willing to travel somewhere).
3. Passing up the opportunity. (Most probable.)
Cheers,
Christian
There once was a service called "Von Haus zu Haus", which freely translates to
"Door-to-door shipping", offered by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal
Railway). They would pick up an item by truck or other reasonable means, get it onto a
train at the next bigger station with goods handling capability, unload it at a similar
station close to the destination and truck it the last part again, *for very reasonable
rates*. That was shortly after WWII, it's of course long gone now unfortunately.
My father told me that when his parents were building our house, they got a small-batch
concrete mixer from their relatives about 100mi away, who had used it while building
theirs and no longer needed it, by that means. We will ultimately need something like that
again, IMHO.
So Long,
Arno