Weho Packing Company Goes the Extra Mile

Provincetown Packing Company has a tagline you will not soon forget – "Weho Gays. Who Pack. Your Shit." And it has a service you won’t forget either.

The 6-month-old Provincetown Packing is a gay-themed moving coordination company that not only packs customers' belongings but does anything else to prepare for a move. 

“We take care of everything you want done,” said Rade Radakovich, the 29-year-old owner of the packing company. “Whatever it is surrounding your move, we’ll do it for you.”

Radakovich and his crew will inventory your belongings, donate the things you don’t want anymore, find consignment companies for the things you want to sell, pack the things you want to keep, then unpack and arrange it all in the new place.

To complete the job, they vacuum the new place and haul away the packing materials before you get there. They will even gas up your car and stock the refrigerator, if you ask them to.

“We’ll handle any request,” said Radakovich, a San Luis Obispo native. “One person wanted the house cleansed with sage to get rid of evil spirits, so we did it.” 

The only thing Provincetown does not do is physically move your belongings. They do all the packing and unpacking, but a moving company loads, transports and unloads.

“We’re a lot like a wedding coordinator. She takes care of everything, but she doesn’t cook the food,” Radakovich said. “We do everything but the actual moving.” 

Gay business

Provincetown Packing is gay owned and gay staffed. “Gays bring a very fine eye to the party about treating things well,” said Radakovich. “We are Saks amongst Sears.”

Provincetown provides an inventory of every item in every box, detailed to the point of who packed the box and what time each item was placed in it.

To add to the ambiance, Radakovich's employees (all young, collegiate types) come dressed in matching outfits – pink polos, seersucker shorts, ribbon belts and Speary topsiders.

“Clients love when we show up in the uniforms,” he said. “That generally puts them at ease when we come to do the job.”  

Ironically, Provincetown Packing is not based in that famous Massachusetts gay resort town (they’re right here in Weho). It was a trip there, Radakovich said, that inspired the concept.

“It was so soft and calming there,” he said. “That’s what moving should be like.”

Cost

The cost of coordinating every aspect of your move ends up being about a month’s rent, he said. The price goes up the more you want done, but it averages out to about $2.50 per square foot.

Provincetown is Radakovich’s second packing company. Two years ago, he started Greystone Relocation Concierge, which specializes in moving mansions. After Greystone proved successful, he created Provincetown Packing for people who were more budget conscious, but still required fastidious service.

“A phrase our clients keep saying is, ‘I never knew moving could be this easy.’” said Radakovich, who started Greystone after he found himself out of a job at an architecture firm due to the recession. 

His best advice for people moving?

“Pare it down, because the less you move, the less its going to cost you,” he said. “Donate things and get the tax write off. Selling it, you’re never going to get what you want. Just donate it and you’ll get a nice tax write off. Charities are kind, resellers are not.”

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