Posted on 01/15/2012 2:28:02 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Am i misunderstanding the story? Shouldnt the navy be on the hook as well?
1. The government is never wrong.
2. See rule #1.
Sounds like she’ll be owning a mini-storage facility soon.
She should sue the CRAP out of everyone involved. This is absolutely unbelievable!
A good lawyer would sue all of them and for as much as possible.
-——it’s the moving and storage company———
These were the guys that rendered my walnut book shelves into a stack of boards to fit in the Conex box.
When we returned from the Philippines we discovered boards not shelves.
The Navy paid damages
I have first hand experience of that rule.
“Schloemer said the buyer had expressly asked that his name not be given out, and the business wasn’t sure about privacy rights.”
Of course the name of the buyer should be made public.
I think there is some rule that a service person cannot sue the Navy. I’m not sure, so please correct me if I’m wrong.
The company the Air Force contracted to move our piddly little lot of belongings didn’t take the time to unscrew the bolts attaching the legs to our kitchen table. They just broke them off. We were very young then. The storage company said “ no we didn’t”. Life lesson learned!
Didn’t I see this auction on “Storage Wars?”
-——piddly little lot of belongings——
That pretty well describes our situation to a T
Nice story.
I can understand the Navy paying for the move, but the storage? For several years?
One files a claim for reparation of damages.
One can also contact their Congressman and request a Congressional Inquiry if the local command ignores orders, as well as contacting the Inspector General for the same command.
“....within a few weeks of the problem’s discovery, two people who worked at Great Lakes’ Personal Property Office retired”
While folks seem to quickly blame the storage firm, and the folks that bought and sold her stuff, it’s quite clear that it was the Navy’s fault.
The reason the storage firm is being sued is that they are the only folks that might have resources and insurance - and lawyers go after the money.
The fault is truly the Navy’s/federal government. They employed truly incompetent federal civilians, who were able to actually “retire” after entire careers of incompetence.
The Navy and the Federal Government is entirely satisfied with the blame being shifted to other folks. Everyone loses, except of course the Navy civilian and federal employees who retire in comfort, oblivious of the mayhem their decades of incompetence have wrought upon the world and victimized service members.
The lesson is, of course, if you want it done right, do it yourself.
The NTS (Non-temp storage) service provider is not under contract with the service memeber when HHG are packed and brought into storage. They are considered government property moving under a 1299 or a GBl when they are released. The PPSO has the obligation to advise of the NTS entitlement to the storage provider and then advise of when it converts to member's expense. In the rare case that a converted shipment goes unpaid, the PPSO issues written authorization to auction the NTS lot. The PPSO screwed up. The service provider has no means to track the member down, all we are given is the HOR and pick0up location.
I do military SIT and NTS for three different PPSO's. Trust me, the SDDC has turned the DPS into a convuluted mess, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more than it does, but the fault is with the PPSO, not the NTS provider.
Exactly. It would also cost them (us) much, much less.
That is self-storage, not military ordered non-temp storage or storage in transit. NTS and SIT are payed by Powertrac under the oder of the PPSO in the region. When the PPSO stops paying, they issue an order to convert it to member's expense.
It is not a mini-storage facility. Non-Temp military storage is done by full-service moving companies and stored in vaults in their warehouses.
The moving company followed the order of the PPSO, the PPSO is at fault. That is the way the DPS (Defense Personal Property System) works. The moving company did nothing wrong. Please learn how the DPS works before assigning blame. We have three warehouses full of NTS and SIT - believe me, I know the system.
“Exactly. It would also cost them (us) much, much less. “
Oh, the naivete. If you want it done right, contract it all out - remove the unaccountable from the equation - the now on-the-beach-with-mai-tai retired federal civilians.
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