Storage firm sells deployed Navy nurse's possessions

Journal Sentinel ^ | 1-15-12 | Bruce Vielmetti

[RobertClark]

HHG - Household Goods
GBL - Government Bill Of Lading
PPSO - Personal Property Shipping Office
NTS - Non Temp Storage (indefinite duration specified by PPSO)
HOR - Home Of Record
SIT - Storage in Transit (2 to 90 day duration)
SDDC - Surface Deployment & Distribution Command
DPS - Defense Personal Property System

[RobertClark]

Everything you posted is conjecture at this point. You have idea what the facts are, but the bottom line is the storage company would be an idiot to think anyone in the Navy could or would be authorizing the sale of personal belongings in a personal storage locker.

Sheese.

What he has contributed is fact regarding the military personal property procedures. I store the personal prperty of thousands of service members and can attest to such. The service member wouldn't be authorizing the sale, the Joint Personal Property Shipping Office would - at the end of the non-temp storage entitlement listed on the applicable 1299 form, the JPPSO would contact the service member to determine their status and then issue a storage extension or convert it to member's expense. The JPPSO issues the orders to the storage providers - they said to sell it, end of story. Moving companies cnnot arbitrariy decide to continue holding personal property for an indefinite duration - it costs resources and makes no sense - if JPPSO says to store it, it is stored, if not, why hold it?

[RFEngineer]

And you base your opinion on what, exactly?

[grame]

“get it in as small a space as possible”, regardless of damage done. Gratefully we were young and had nothing of true value.

[Jean S]

Ping!
Your part of the world.

[Jonty30]

I disagree.

I can find fault with the individual soldier for not taking the steps to ensure the security of their belongings.

I can find fault with the military for not ensuring the security of the soldier’s belongings, if the soldier wasn’t in position to do it himself. The military can always dock the pay of the soldier in question to get the money back.

But I can’t really find fault with the storage company for treating a storage container in default as a storage container in default. When somebody, for whatever reason, stops paying rent, what other option does the storage company have?

[Gene Eric]

>> what other option does the storage company have

Go fight for the Country.

[Jonty30]

And go out of business while doing so?

I don’t know if you own your own business or not, but would you really risk your business and your employees’ well-being because somebody didn’t have their act together?

[WalterSobchak2012]

When we were growing up and living in New York for a time our next door neighbors were a childless Swiss couple who took a shine to the pair of us. Their "children" were half a dozen European motorcycles and they taught us to ride. I never really took to motorcycles in general but my brother has been hooked on European bikes since then.

This has naturally been a recurring source of tension since he has lived most of his adult life in rural Florida.

[Indy Pendance]

Yeah, all that, let’s just vote the bastards out of office....

AGAIN