Its Snowing.......but this is California....

Well, here I am at our Oakland, California warehouse, and the weather forecasters are predicting snow at sea level, here in the bay area, between late tonight and noon tomorrow.
http://www.boxbros.com/oakland-california
I used to live in the Berkeley area, when I attended school there, back in the late 1970's.....and I recall a lot of different and unusual things about my time in the bay area, but never was there snow unless we drove to Lake Tahoe......

I had the opportunity to do quite a few things during this trip. I attended my first North Bay
CMSA Chapter meeting, which had, as its guest speaker, one of the heads of the Google Ad Program for Moving spoke and it was quite informative, and I even got a free Google Pen.
Ask me, I think it is the most expensive pen I did not directly pay for, but that is a whole other story, for another time.....

I got to also got to break some bread with our entire crew, last night. It was a chance for me
to reconnect with our staff up here, from Kiyoshi Foster who runs our San Francisco location, http://www.boxbros.com/bay-area-california
to Sharie Michalec and her family, as well as Ganzo and his family, too. Dan and his fiance, Carrie and our top comedian and musician extraordinaire, Bill Carter, kept everyone in stitches.

Today I am going to visit our San Francisco location and do so before the snow arrives.....and tonight, I am blessed to be attending a play that my niece has the lead in, up in Martinez. Nothing like a full agenda.

I just wanted to say that we have a great crew up here with so much to look forward to, and I want them all to know that I appreciate their fine work, commitment to customer service, but most of all, that we are one great team and family, all rolled into one-committed to giving our customers the best possible service in the whole wide world.

Three more days till March.......get ready....

Sharie sharing her new skills......

I'm still a bit new to the company, so I wanted to write my first blog post! Yesterday Bill and I received two large candelabras to pack for shipment...nothing too unsual about two candelabras... except these were both covered in large, unpolished, roughly cut crystals. They covered the entire surface of the candelabras as well as a very fine "crystal dust" over the top of each arm, where one would insert the candles. The maker of these items brought them in because she had trouble when shipping them on her own - the crystals were coming off and she even had problems with the arms breaking off during shipment. She wanted to make sure that they were packed safely for transit, and carefully enough to protect the fragility of the crystals attached. We carefully wrapped and packed these items using a number of safe materials, and they were then placed into a foam lined box to add extra sturdiness and padding to the walls of the box. When she came to pick her up pieces she was beyond thrilled with how we had packed them, and was excited to have a place to turn to for her packing needs. To add to that, she was doubly happy when Bill informed her that we could even pick up her items for her, from her residence, so she would not have to make the trip to our store (she came all the way to us from about 45 minutes north of San Francisco!), along with packing her items and doing the shipping for her as well. All she would have to worry about was being home for us to pick them up...we will take care of the rest! So in the end we had a very happy customer and two well packed, fragile, and unique items. I am happy to be a part of this great team here in the Bay Area! -Sharie

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Apparently there has been some confusion about this. So I revamped the storefront a little bit, hope this will clear things up!