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Tips For Celebrating Valentine’s Day When You Just Moved

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Moving is a busy time, but you can still spice things up with a little romance on Valentine’s Day. Show your partner/moving buddy how much you care with a special meal, a thoughtful gift or an at-home date night in your new house.

Tips For Celebrating Valentine’s Day When You Just MovedThere may be plenty to do after moving, but there’s also plenty to celebrate. Don’t let the excitement wane from your romance just because there’s a stack of boxes to unpack. Here are a few suggestions on how to keep the romance alive while you adjust to your new home.

Take Out and Eat In

Moving into a new neighborhood is the perfect time to discover that special café or hole-in-the-wall that becomes your new favorite restaurant. A quick search online or, better yet, a recommendation from a neighbor, will hopefully point you in the right direction.

Even if your kitchen is still packed away, you can have a romantic picnic on the floor. Throw in some candles and a bluetooth speaker, and you’ve got the mood set for a perfect Valentine’s date in your new home.

Flowers

Bringing your Sweet Babboo flowers may seem cliché, but we think flowers never get old. They brighten spirits and rooms, especially when you skip the painted carnations and get a bouquet that shines or a potted plant to bring some added oxygen into your home as you get a workout moving boxes around.

In a new home without much furniture or decoration yet, a vase or funky pot full of floral love is a wonderful first step toward making things feel homy. Have you checked to see where your nearest florist is yet?

Balm for Achy Muscles

If you find yourselves a bundle of aches and pains after carrying that sleeper sofa upstairs, a massage could be just the thing to help relax and celebrate.

Many spas offer couples massages and treatments. Treat your partner to a relaxing getaway for a Valentine they’ll surely appreciate.

Valentine’s Day at Home

There’s plenty of ways to enjoy being under your new roof. After a long slog, a quiet evening doing some of your favorite activities may be the ticket. Here are a few ideas:

  • Board games and a bottle of wine.
  • Turn your open floor into a dance floor.
  • “Camp out” with a tent in your living room.
  • Project a romantic movie on an empty wall.

Get creative and use those unfurnished surroundings.

Explore Your New World

Whether you moved across town or across the country, there’s a different world outside your door. Valentine’s day is the perfect time to get out and explore it with your favorite companion. Take a drive, walk the beat or pedal around your new hood.

Find a new park to enjoy, discover new trails to hike or bike or just learn where your hardware store and local grocer are. You never know what you’ll find once you set out.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day Without the Stress

Moving into a new home doesn’t have to come at the cost of romance. We hope you’ll find ways to celebrate Valentine’s day and every day after your move. New rituals and new traditions come with the change of scenery. Make sure you start off right, and that your special someone doesn’t feel left out.

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Our COVID-19 Response

Our COVID-19 ResponseTo our valued customers:

As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to disrupt daily life, Pony Express Moving Services wants to assure homeowners and business customers that we are taking steps to help our employees and customers stay safe and healthy.

Open, Fully Staffed, and Ready to Help the Communities We Serve

We know many of you are working from home and self-quarantining.

Pony Express Moving Services is ready to help with service anytime you need us. We’re still operating under our normal hours of operation. We’re carefully monitoring the COVID-19 situation and strictly following government health and safety guidelines to minimize the spread of the virus and protect our customers and employees in every community we serve.

Our Movers are Essential Service Providers

All Pony Express Moving Services movers who visit your home or business will adhere to our high standards of cleanliness, safety, and hygiene before, during, and after every service visit.

In order to ensure maximum effectiveness, we’ve instructed our service technicians to uphold and enhance our already strict cleaning and disinfecting measures to ensure the safest possible work environment. Additionally, we’re following CDC (Centers for Disease Control) guidelines designed to stop the spread of the virus, including:

  • Wearing personal protective equipment
  • Eliminating physical contact, including handshakes. We’ll use only non-contact methods of greeting
  • Maintaining effective social distancing all the time
  • Washing hands thoroughly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds at every opportunity
  • Using hand sanitizer
  • Using disinfectant products to ensure touch-points are clean in work-spaces, vehicles, and on equipment
  • Sanitizing shared-use devices such as tablets and clipboards; customers should consider using their own pens to sign paperwork

Customer Service

Our customer service department is fully staffed to assist you with scheduling service calls, answering questions and meeting all your needs. We have implemented the following additional precautions to ensure a safe experience and excellent service.

  • Our customer service representatives and service technicians will ask if anyone is symptomatic of illness.
  • We’ll honor special requests from customers seeking to maintain a safe distance from our service technicians.
  • Pony Express Moving Services personnel are always aware of the risks and symptoms of illness. Any employee feeling potential signs of the virus will stay home and seek a professional medical evaluation.
  • You can count on all of us at Pony Express Moving Services to conduct ourselves with the highest level of professionalism and dependability throughout this health crisis.

Please contact us if you have concerns about specific Pony Express Moving Services safety precautions, procedures, or hours of operation. Please note that the COVID-19 situation is changing rapidly. Accordingly, Pony Express Moving Services must adjust its processes to best serve our communities and ensure the safety of our employees and customers.

Winter Move Tips

Winter Move TipsIf moving in winter doesn’t sound exciting to you, we can’t blame you. Moving in winter is not such a horrible idea. There are positive sides to it. Because most companies have winter rates and summer rates, you can benefit from these discounts! Most people move in the summer, so you will find quite a few discounts available during the cold months. When you schedule a winter move, you are likely to get a better deal along with the ability to pick your dates. Here’s why.

Moving in winter can save you money

The moving season reaches its peak in the summer and then starts to decline in the fall. Because that’s when the back-to-school season begins. So, by winter, the number of moves gets very low. The busy time for moving companies ends in September, and that’s when discounts really start to pop. As we get closer to December, prices continue to drop. Moving in winter is especially affordable in January and February. The prices start to rise again in March, and the busy time for movers is at full charge by the end of April. So, why not take advantage of these facts and move during the winter months?

Storage renting prices drop in the winter too

Storage facilities’ occupancy usually drops in winter, so you can take advantage of the best prices. Typically, this is the best time to grab some amazing promotions for the state-to-state moving. To boost your storage unit price deduction even further, schedule your move for a weekday. Or toward the middle of the month. That’s when moving companies are usually the least busy.

Moving in winter comes with less competition

Especially when you live in an urban area, moving during the high season can become a real challenge. In the summer, there are often several clients moving in and out on the same day. You could find yourself having to maneuver past a few different moving trucks.

Winter temperatures are safer for your belongings that the heat

Most of the US can reach sweltering temperatures in the summer. But the outside temperatures get even more intense inside a moving truck or your car. When you choose to move in winter, you are able to drastically lower your risk of ruining everything you own. Packing in a colder climate is much safer for your household goods that the scorching heat. Remember that one sweaty slip-up could mean goodbye to your delicate record collection or a valuable painting.

Always anticipate delays, especially when moving in winter!

When it comes to moving in winter, summer relocations do hold one advantage over them. It is those few extra hours of daylight. With fewer daylight hours, a move that you expect to take just one day could take two. So make sure to plan for that and keep your expectations in alignment with reality. Try to stay flexible if the move needs to be rescheduled altogether. Sometimes you might get really unpredictable weather.

Stay organized during your winter move by following these steps:

  • Confirm all the details of your relocation with your movers.

Opting for moving in winter is pretty smart. Winter is a rather low season for most movers, so you should have a wider range of dates available to choose from. But please remember that you still need to check in with your movers on a regular basis. Contact us once a week before the move, and the second time a day or two before the move. This is important because the weather in winter can be treacherous.

  • Keep checking the weather channel.

Speaking of weather, keep close track of the changes. Keep an eye on the weather channel every week that leads up to the move, and then every day the week of the move. If you think that there’s a possibility that the weather can shut down roads or hinder your movers, call the moving company and express your concern. In those cases, it is better to delay the relocation than getting caught in a winter storm.

  •  Protect your floors by covering them.

If you have carpeting and hardwood floors, it’s essential that you protect them because movers will be tromping all over them on moving day. You can use a couple of cheap plastic tarps from the nearest hardware store. Also, lay floor mats down at every outside door.

Make sure you’re relying on reliable and skilled professionals!

When you’re dealing with cold conditions, the experience will make all the difference. And that’s where the movers like Pony Express Moving Services set themselves apart from the crowd. All of our movers have received professional training in order to learn how to perform every relocation safely and efficiently in any type of conditions. Moving in winter isn’t exactly cheap, but hiring a professional company with a reliable, skilled team is not a service to try and cut costs on.

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How to Overcome the Challenges of Boston Moving

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Living the Boston life is generally fast-paced, rich in culture, full of opportunities, and some may even say, glamorous. But, there’s certainly one part of Boston living that isn’t glamorous – moving in or out of the Boston area!

How to Overcome the Challenges of Boston MovingWhile relocating, in general, can be especially stressful due to a slew of unknowns, moving in or out of Boston is daunting. From hiring movers to navigating the streets, to working with building management, you’ll find that urban moving is much different than moving from a suburban or rural home to another suburban or rural location. Let’s look at some of the challenges you may face during your Boston moving , and how to overcome them.

Finding Movers in Boston

Whether you are moving into or out of Boston – finding the right movers for the job can be stressful. Do you move by yourself? Rent a truck? Find someone you know with a car and make small moves at a time? Or, do you find a full-service moving company to move for you? Your options for moving companies may be limited to small move companies if you’re moving out of Boston. Your one bedroom apartment is not worth the time or expense of a large freight moving company and their trucks are often too big to navigate Boston narrow streets.

You should research local moving companies and small-move companies, such as Pony Express Moving Services. These movers are equipped to handle the urban lifestyle and understand the ins and outs of moving out of Boston.

Elevator Reservations & Parking Permits

Your relocation challenges when you move into or out of a city, such as Boston, will include working with the management companies of the buildings. You might be relocating to a 27-story high-rise apartment building and you’re going to have to organize yourself as soon as you know when your move date will be.

If you are moving into or out of a high-rise building with an elevator, you should make elevator reservations with building management. This way, you are not spending half of your day waiting for an elevator to arrive on your floor, and you won’t upset your neighbors by taking away the only, or one of the only ways out of the building. Some buildings even require this.

Once you’ve secured your elevator, you’ll also want to figure out where your moving truck will park. Whether you choose to rent your own truck or hire movers, talk to your building management about a loading zone permit or a parking permit. Check with the city in which you are moving to and/or from to learn whether there are city ordinances you must adhere to when it comes to parking in loading zones.

Security: You Can’t Do This Alone

If you’re moving in to or out of Boston, you’ll need to solicit help. Ensure that there is always someone available to keep your belongings safe and secure from thieves. While this may seem like a farfetched idea, this is one major difference in city living. Hundreds of people will walk by your moving truck during the loading or unloading process, so you do not want to leave anything unattended at any time.

If you plan a DIY move, you should recruit friends or family to play certain roles – one of which will be the security of the truck during loading and unloading. If you hire movers, you’ll want to confirm with the moving company that they will have their own security. You do not want to be put in a situation where you are scrambling last minute to find someone to man the truck during loading and unloading. Pony Express Moving Services is well equipped with nearly 20 years of experience helping people relocate out of Boston settings and understands this need for security.

Other Building Necessities

While you are organizing your move, check with the management of the building you are moving in to or out of. Ask them if you need any special permits, pay any one-time move-in or move-out fees, whether you must provide proof of insurance from the moving company or any other possible requirements. Keep in mind that while your move may be important to you, you share the common space, elevators, and hallways with your neighbors.

Do you need help navigating your upcoming Boston move? Consider contacting a small-move local company such as Pony Express Moving Services to get you started. Whether you are moving one piece of furniture across the country or an entire apartment from one state to another, Pony Express Moving Services specializes in small-moves and understands the nuances of Boston moves.

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