Could somebody help me out with some confusion I'm experiencing? Alright, here's what I do know. I'm told it takes roughly 2 months for an international mover to ship your furniture from the USA to the UK. OK, but what I'm not sure about is, at the time when you contract your initial move from the USA, are you required to provide a residential address in the UK where your goods will be shipped to? In other words, do I have to travel to the UK, find a flat there to let, and then contact the mover in the USA, directing them where to ship everything within the usual two months of shipping time? Therefore, if I wanted to be settled in to a flat by say the 1st of September, would I have to get over to the UK by early July sometime, find and rent a flat to take possesion of by 1st August, call the mover back in the States and make arrangements to have everything is shipped from door to door within the usual 8 week period (which means my things wouldn't get to England until early September)? This sounds awfully time consuming and complicated.
Or, would I be able to do it this way: I have the mover take all my belongings from my residence here in America on say 1st July. While my belongings are being shipped, I travel to Britain around the begining of August, find a place to let where I can move in on 1st September, and then contact the mover in America and let him know I found a place to live and he can have the British movers deliver my furniture around the 1st of September at such and such an address?
In essence, how do I time this, and what arrangements are allowed and what aren't?
