Unlike in the West, where a significant population moves from one place to another for a variety of reasons, Pakistanis tend to stay put where they belong. However, this trend has now started to change.
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in South Asia, Pakistan has the highest rate of urbanization. This is not to suggest that the population is moving from the rural to the urban only; people move from city to city as well primarily for economic and social reasons.
Leaving your home and moving to a new place isn’t easy for a variety of reasons. However, moving your belongings shouldn’t have to be the hard part in moving. Especially, if you let the professionals handle this task.
Of course, you can move your things yourself and just like anything else there are advantages and disadvantages of it. However, if you do not have help or have a large family to help you with moving, consider hiring packers and movers.
In this blog, we will lay out most if not all of the advantages and disadvantages of hiring professional packers and movers in pakistan.
Pros: Why Should You Hire Packers and Movers?
One obvious advantage of hiring movers is that you pay them to take the stress of moving.
Less Stressful
Let’s face it – moving is stressful. Especially if you decide to do it on your own. You’ll have to worry about buying boxes of the right size and quantity, doing all the heavy lifting yourself, loading them onto a truck, etc. Instead, you can “sublet” your worries and stress along with it.
Packers and movers are professionals who have trained staff which would make sure that your precious belongings are picked up and packed with care, accounted for and delivered in one piece to your new address. They have trucks, and vans of varying sizes to help transport your stuff. In short, you pay them for the backbreaking lifting.
Enjoy Your Free Time With Your Family
Now that you don’t have to worry about moving that heavy sofa down the stairs and out of the narrow main door, you can sit back, relax and enjoy spending quality time with your family and friends.
Efficient Time Management
If you have a fixed deadline to join your new job, while you’re working during your notice period, hiring professionals makes even more sense. While working, you may not find enough time to pack and transport your things. So, letting others take care of your belongings is perhaps the only best alternative.
If You Are Moving For The First Time Or After A Very Long Time
If this is your first time moving, chances are you have a lot of stuff to move. From carefully packing a particular piece of furniture that you’ve inherited from your grandparents to the recently bought massage chair, your first and foremost concern is their transportation in one piece.
Professionals, packers and movers can help you with this task.
While moving, you’ll come across items which are not worth moving. Simply list them on OLX Pakistan, sell them, make money and use the same to pay the packers and movers.
Are You Moving Long Distance?
Hiring professional packers and movers make sense especially when you are moving to another place, far from your current location. Sending your belongings across the country, without having to worry about them getting damaged or stolen, is one of the biggest reasons to hire such professionals.
Do You Have Fragile, Antique or Valuable Items to Move?
You should consider hiring professionals of good repute especially when you have valuable, antique or fragile stuff to move. These professionals have the best packaging materials for such items plus the experience to handle them, which can ensure their transportation from one place to another in one piece.
Having said this, there are cons of hiring professional packers and movers. Their cost being one but there are others as well.
Cons: Why Should You Ask Friends and Family For Help Instead?
Hiring professional packers and movers will obviously cost you and if you’re on a budget, you’d be better off asking friends and family to help you move. However, when it comes to “cost” there is more than money involved.
Do factor in the following “cost” when deciding to move on your own. You will have to do all of the following yourself:
- Spend hours to pack, load and move
- Physical effort like doing heavy lifting, etc
- Finding supplies and equipment like boxes, duct tapes, ropes, etc
- Packing, cleaning, loading and unloading
- Risk of incurring physical injury
So, when factoring in the cost, don’t forget to count in the above.
Less Flexibility
Once you’ve made a booking, it would be hard to change it. If your relocation gets cancelled or delayed, you’ll have to either call off or reschedule the appointment, which may cost you. If you get a new appointment it may be for the day that is not feasible for you, etc.
Simply put, when you hire packers and movers, you make them incharge of things; they run the show, not you.
Letting Strangers Handle Your Valuables
Unless you’re hiring a packing and moving company owned by your relative or friend, chances are these professionals will be unknown to you. Therefore, you may find it a bit uncomfortable letting them handle your valuables, etc. This is why you should only select those Movers & Packers which come highly recommended.
Short Distance
If you’re moving only a short distance away from your current location, there is no point in hiring professionals. Especially, if you have friends and family or even neighbors to help you move.
These were some of the pros and cons of hiring professional services of packers and movers in Pakistan. If you have availed such services, we would like to hear your experiences. Please leave a comment in the section below.
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