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Shipping a car (and stuff!) across Canada
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Just like the title, i need to ship my car across Canada from Alberta to Ontario. What's the best way to do this?
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Probably Searail - they're pretty good from what I hear. Never used them myself.
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One thing I will warn you about, do not leave anything of value in your car when you ship it by rail. In fact, empty all the compartments (glove box, center console, etc.) of the vehicle and leave them open to indicate that they are in fact empty. Your car will spend a lot of time sitting overnight in large, desolate rail yards. These places are too big to effectively secure, so it's downright likely that someone will hop a fence and cruise the railside vehicle lots looking for stuff to steal. The yards themselves are secured from vehicle theft because they can't drive the car out past the fences and security checkpoints, but anything of value that can be carried back over the fence is liable to be stolen.
In fact, when I found my car I found it with the doors unlocked. This makes sense if you think about it. If Searail locks the car, a thief will just smash a window to rifle through it. If they leave it unlocked, there's no damage and thus no insurance claim. When I picked up mine, the contents of the glove box were scattered around the interior of the car. Someone had definitely pawed through the car looking for anything of value. Luckily I listened when the Searail people told me not to leave anything valuable in the car, so they didn't bother stealing any of the few things in there.
However, shipping stuff is, IMO, a colossal pain in the ass. Sell anything you aren't highly attached to and then buy stuff in your new city.
Is this a permanent move or a temporary relocation for school?
I was getting estimates from CanadaPost, FedEx, Purolator, UPS, basically everywhere and it's costing as much to ship it as the thing is worth itself. Too bad it's the middle of the damn winter otherwise i could drive everything back home.
edit: I just did an estimate from CanadaPost for my LCD TV. It's only going to be $46 with a $800 coverage. I still have the original box and styrofoam and everything. Is there a reason i should not do this?