Four Lines on a Slip — Kai Signs the Hawaii Flat Before Lunch

Zero card on file, zero broker hand-off, zero auto-redial week

Your four lines drop onto the Matson cut-off clipboard at the Wakea Avenue container office; from there Nalani matches them against Wednesday and Friday Pasha sailings, Marisol checks the silica-pad and hurricane-prep box stock, and Kai personally inks the binding Hawaii figure before any slot is held in your name — no card kept on file, no broker email loop, no auto-redial Tuesday.

Salt-Air Pack-Out & Custom Wood-Crate Service

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Pack day on Maui is a separate dispatch from move day, and on a mainland-bound or inter-island container shipment it has to be a separate dispatch because the wrap discipline takes the time it takes. The WMP pack crew arrives between 7 and 8 a.m., works through the house room by room, and finishes between 4 and 6 p.m. depending on how many koa pieces, leather sofas, surfboard quivers and ceramic-tile-art panels need custom wood crating before they ride the sea. Devin Kahale runs the pack crew when the household is headed into a Matson container; Pono runs pack day when the household is staying on-island. The wrap on a Maui pack is doubled compared to a mainland pack because the trade-wind humidity at 75 percent year-round saturates a single layer in under twelve hours.

Salt-air pack-out with custom wood-crate work for the koa pieces

Pack-day flats start at $895 for a one-bedroom unit packed for an on-island move, $1,290 for the same unit packed for an inter-island container ride, and $1,690 for a mainland container pack with the doubled wrap layer and the silica-gel discipline. Materials are billed at our cost and rolled into the flat: corrugated cartons, dish-pack barrels, glassine paper, hibiscus-resistant stretch wrap, custom-cut plywood-cushion crates for the marble tops and the Hawaiian art panels, silica-gel sachets by the box and the 2-inch e-track strapping. Kitchen-and-fragiles-only packing is a common Maui request from kupuna who pack their own clothes but want the koa hutch and the ceramic dish set crated by hands that know hurricane-prep box sealing.

Hurricane-prep box sealing on the May-through-November booking window

From May through November we run hurricane-prep sealing on every pack day automatically. That means the carton lid is tape-sealed across all four flaps (not just the center seam), the box is lifted and weighed for the bill of lading, and the inventory sheet records the carton weight in case a tropical-storm sail-day delay puts the container in a holding yard overnight. The pack crew also stages the cartons on raised pallets inside the house overnight, not on the floor, in case a rain band moves through. These are not optional add-ons; they are how a Maui pack runs during the storm-prep window.

We Move People crew at work

What's Covered

  • Devin or Pono leads the pack crew with one chief and three packers for a one-bedroom and four packers for a three-bedroom, working a 7 a.m. start to 4-6 p.m. finish
  • Doubled hibiscus-grade stretch wrap on every wood surface, silica-gel sachet inside every carton holding electronics or leather, and a separate silica pad between leather and wrap layers
  • Custom-cut plywood-cushion crates built on Wakea Avenue for koa hutches, marble counter inserts, surfboard quivers, ceramic-tile art panels and grandmother’s heirloom mirror frames
  • Hurricane-prep four-flap tape sealing during the May-through-November booking window, carton weight recorded on the bill of lading, raised-pallet overnight staging inside the home
  • Color-coded room labels keyed to a master inventory sheet on every carton, sheet emailed to the receiver after pack day, second copy taped to the inside of the lead box
  • Kitchen-and-fragiles-only pack option for kupuna and self-pack households who want the koa pieces and the ceramic set crated by the WMP crew but pack their own clothes and books

What's the Cost?

Two uniformed Akamai-crew W-2 movers plus the 26-ft straight truck post out of the Wakea Avenue gate at $195 an hour; for a studio, junior one-bedroom or a tight in-building lanai-to-lanai swap that slots cleanly into a half-day, Tyler will lock it as a flat figure instead, opening at $595 all-in.

Everything the day calls for is folded into that hourly figure: the two W-2 movers themselves, the 26-ft We Move People truck, quilted blankets, masonite floor runners, two-wheel and four-wheel dollies, ratchet straps, walk-boards, and the trade-wind humidity mats we put down off the porch in any month with salt on the sidewalk. Fuel adders, third-floor stair charges, long-carry charges from the alley to the door — none of those line items show up on a We Move People invoice, period.

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Move-Day, Door to Door, Across a Single Wakea Avenue Roster

Six A.M. on the Wakea Avenue Gate Through to the Last Silica Pad Pulled at the Destination — the Lane Owned by One Akamai Crew

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Drop the Four Lines onto Nalani’s Wakea Avenue Clipboard

Origin ZIP, destination ZIP, the date you’d like inked on the board, a rough room count and any piece over 200 lbs — that is the entire intake slip. Nalani Akamai-Pang slides it across the Wakea Avenue counter to Tyler Aiona, who reads it against the Matson and Pasha sailing calendar, and your signed Hawaii flat lands in the inbox before the next sailing cut-off. Zero deposit, zero auto-redial Tuesday, zero upsell phone call.

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Binding Hawaii Figure, Printed Before the Next Sailing Cut-Off

Once Tyler pins the estimate against the Wakea Avenue board, the binding Hawaii flat is in your inbox before lunch (or before Devin’s 7am huddle the following morning if your call came in past 4pm). Whether the job runs hourly or on a fixed line, the figure folds in every piece of gear you’ll see at the curb: a 26-ft straight truck out of the Wakea Avenue gate, two uniformed W-2 Akamai-crew movers, koa-safe quilted blankets, salt-line floor matting, two-wheel and four-wheel dollies, ratchet straps, shrink-wrap, silica-gel pads, and the lanai-threshold runners we cut to fit a Lahaina single-wall plantation carry. No quiet hourly meter keeps ticking under the printed figure once Kai has signed the We Move People letterhead.

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Lanai to Lanai — One Akamai Crew Carries the Lane Start to Finish

Move-day starts before the first Maui Bus run: Pono Akamai is on the block by 5am, reading the hibiscus-hedge clearance, the lanai pitch and the Front Street service-lift window the resident manager logged for you. The rig drops the brakes at your curb inside a 30-minute window (6am Apr–Oct, 7am hurricane-season Nov–May when the trade-wind humidity needs an extra hour of silica-pad time). Uniformed W-2 movers step off, lay salt-line matting across every single-wall plantation threshold, and only then does the first koa carton ride out the lanai. The same hands that strapped the load on Wakea Avenue are the hands Marcus Tagaloa steers off the Matson container at the Long Beach or Oakland delivery curb; if your closing slips behind the sailing, the climate-stable Wakea Avenue bay holds the household, silica pads sealed, until keys actually change.

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Questions?

Service FAQ

How many days ahead of the move should the pack crew come in?
One day ahead for an on-island move; two days ahead for an inter-island Pasha container; three days ahead for a Matson mainland container so the pack settles and the silica pads do their first absorption cycle before the carton seals close. Nalani builds the calendar backward from the container sail date so the pack-to-load gap is right.
What is in a Maui pack that is not in a mainland pack?
Three things. One: doubled stretch wrap on every wood surface instead of a single layer, because of the 75 percent ambient humidity. Two: silica-gel sachets inside every carton with electronics, leather, paper or fabric, dropped at the bottom and the top of the box. Three: hurricane-prep four-flap tape sealing during the May-November storm window so a sail-day delay does not soak a center seam open in a holding yard.
Will the WMP pack crew supply boxes and materials or do we source them ourselves?
We supply, at our cost. Cartons, dish-pack barrels, glassine paper, the doubled stretch wrap, silica-gel sachets, the e-track strapping and the wardrobe boxes are stocked on the truck and the count goes on the bill of lading. You only pay for what we used; the unused stock rides back to Wakea Avenue.
Can the pack crew build a custom wood crate for grandmother’s koa hutch?
Yes, that is one of Devin’s specialties. He measures the piece during the walk-through, the crate is cut and dry-fit at the Wakea Avenue yard the night before pack day, and the piece is crated on-site with the cushion-foam layer between the crate wall and the koa surface. The crate then rides into the Matson container as a single load unit and is uncrated by the receiving crew on the mainland side.
We are off-island for the pack day. Can the crew work without us in the house?
Yes, with a property manager or trusted contact who can let the crew in and out. Nalani writes a written inventory checklist before pack day, the crew photographs every room before they start packing, and the photo set plus the bill of lading is emailed to you the night of pack day. The keys go back to whoever Nalani logged as the contact.

Once your slip lands on the Wakea Avenue board, Kai Akamai phones the kitchen table back — lanai to lanai, koa cabinet to koa cabinet — and walks the inventory with you out loud.

The binding Hawaii flat is keyed against the Matson and Pasha sailing sheets at the Wakea Avenue counter, initialed by Kai on We Move People letterhead, and back in your inbox before Tyler closes the office for sunset. One desk owns the quote start to finish — no broker lane, no after-hours national queue — and if Saturday comes and you have not booked, nobody on Wakea Avenue dials you a second time. The only follow-up is the one you ask Nalani for.

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