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Where is there any indication of hoarding in this situation? The company contracted to provide certain services but wasn't staffed to actually do so, nor well enough equipped to actually accomplish it (lack of packing materials.) How much stuff is being moved is completely irrelevant to this.

The thing is movers have little in the way of repeat business, thus little incentive to treat the customer right.

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The movers you want are the ones that are used by big organisations to relocate their people.

A friend discovered a nearly-ideal way to move out of the house they'd been in for >30 years: she trained as a minister for the Church of England, and when she was placed in a role the church packed up the whole house (including all the fossils and archaeological finds they'd accumulated) and relocated them.

That said, I've always hired a van for house moves, and it's going to have been a lot easier for me (never moving more than 20 miles since coming north for university) than for folk moving across the US.

There isn’t any indication of such, OP formed a strawman by suggesting the problem is because of hoarding.

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