Moving furniture and minds

Case Study: College Boxes Move Out With Harvard University

In the heart of Cambridge, Olympia helps Harvard students move out of their housing. This project was a joint effort with College Boxes, a storage and shipping company for college students. A student orders boxes and packing supplies from College Boxes, which are then delivered to their dorm. Students use these items to pack their belongings for the summer. Once the student is fully packed, College Boxes picks up the boxes and puts them into storage for the break. When the student returns to school in the fall, their belongings will already be in their new dorm room, ready for the school year. Though College Boxes is a storage company in it’s own right, Olympia provided the labor, logistics and warehouse space required to make a large job like a dorm move run smoothly. Olympia and College Boxes have worked together to provide this service for 13 years.

Rain or Shine

You can’t control the weather and Olympia is ready to move students in and out of their dorms no matter what. On this day it poured all day as our crew loaded boxes from Quincy House and the surrounding dorms. Three teams tackled different buildings over the course of the day, helping students move their things outside. Despite the weather, the post-finals mood was bright. Our crew was all smiles as they helped students transition into summer.

Successful Move Out

With the exception of Quincy House, each building clustered their inventory around a homebase. The Quincy House team worked out of the corner of the quad because of repairs being made to the Harvard’s iconic iron fences. The Olympia team worked quickly and effectively to get the entire inventory off to College Boxes. The completion of this job adds to Olympia’s track record of supporting colleges and universities with moving logistics. From large projects like full building clean-outs to more focused tasks like this move out, Olympia has the experience needed to execute jobs effectively.