Loading
MilVil, Inc.
  • PCS Move Planning Tools
    • Checklists
    • Receipts
    • Entitlements
  • Virtual Military Sponsor
    • Homes
    • Employment
    • Insurance
    • Schools
    • Daycare
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Search
  • Menu

Options for Moving Household Goods (HHG)

Options for Household Goods

Your Three Options

When moving, you have three options:

Government Move: In this case, your local transportation office will schedule a third-party contractor to pack-up and ship your goods.  Once you get to your new duty station, you will then schedule with the new transportation office for a drop-off.

***If you are moving internationally, you will have to complete a government move.

The good:  A lot is happening during a PCS.  Having someone else pack your house can take a ton of stress off.

The bad: No one will handle your goods like you.  As with any third-party, you risk damage and loss of items.  Historically, many contractors are unreliable, and may not come to scheduled appointment times on-time.

Advice: Make sure you document your most important items.  Also, go through your house BEFORE moving day, and sent aside important documents, prescriptions, passports, etc., that should travel with you.  In fact, you may want to drop them at a friends house, or secure them in your car during the move.

Personally Procured Move: This is a move where you do everything yourself – from renting and weighing the vehicle, to purchasing materials, to packing and unpacking.

The good: If you like control – this is for you.  And, if planned properly, and you can move at less than 95% of what it would cost the government – you may end up with some extra cash at the end of your PCS!

The bad: PCSing is super-stressful, and thing pop-up when you least expect it. If you are balancing strict timelines, or you don’t have a house/apartment to unload at on the other side, you may find yourself in over you head.

Advice:  Talk to transportation and get an estimate on how much they will reimburse you.  Compare that with how much it will cost you to move yourself.

Combination:  You may want to consider having the government pick up some stuff, and then you can move the rest.  Doing this, you will be able to control some of the packing, but reduce the stress of having to pack everything.

The good: You get the best of both worlds – you can control the packing and movement of those items that are important to you, but can reduce stress in having the government move everything else.

The bad: This option does involve extra coordination, ensuring that the moving don’t pack the stuff you are moving yourself.

Advice: Plan out what you are packing on your own first, and separate it!

Plan Your Military Move From Anywhere at Anytime with the MilVil App

Get it on Google Play

Personally Procured Move Reimbursement

Formerly called a (Do-It-Yourself) DITY move, these are moves where you will pack and ship everything on your own.

PPM Reimbursement

Learn More about Personally Procured Moves

Terms of Use

  • End User Licensing Agreement
  • Privacy Policy
  • PCS Move Planning Tools
  • Spouse Employment Planning During Military Relocation
  • Deals and Discounts
  • O
  • The Military Agent

About Us

MilVil, Inc.
PO Box 36346
Fayetteville, NC 28303

Contact Us

 

 

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • Mail
Scroll to top

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

OK

Cookie and Privacy Settings



How we use cookies

We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.

Essential Website Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.

Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.

We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.

Other external services

We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.

Google Webfont Settings:

Google Map Settings:

Google reCaptcha Settings:

Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:

Accept settingsHide notification only