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B-203036 1 (1982-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /7--163 DECISION FI!.Ei 7077 HE COMPTROLLER GENERAL CIF THE UNITED ST!ATESI WA. J H I NOTC3No 1, C . 20545a B-203036 DATEi February 9, 1982 MATTER DIGEST; OF; Lieutenant Colonel Glen A. Douglas, USAF Service member shipped household goods including a pipe organ, the total weight of which was in excess of maximum weight allowance. Even if he was told that disassembly would be at Government expense, total cost of transportation which includes costs of disassembling and packing must be prorated when the weight shipped is excessive, Thus, the member must bear his share of costs incurred by the Air Force in connection with the shipment of the pipe organ. See 44 Comp, Gen. 652 (1964). This action io in response to a letter dated March 23, 1981, from Lieutenaint Colonel Glen A. Douglas, USAF, request- ing further consideration of his claim for reimbursement for amounts charged him for excess weight in the shipment of his household goods incident to a permanent change-of-station assignment in June 1979 from Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, to lolloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. This matter was the subject of a determination by our Claims Group dated March 12, 1981, which disallowed the claim for the reason that while the Government will ship all of a member's goods presented for shipment, its maximum obligation under the law is the cost of that part of the shipment not in excess of the member's prescribed weight allowance, on a pro rata basis. We sustain that disallow- ance. The file shows that when Colonel Douglas was transferred on permanent change of station from Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, to Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, he was entitled to move 3.3,000 pounds of household goods at Govern- ment expense. The actual net chargeable weight of the house- hold goods which were shipped was 19,958 pounds and included a pipe organ. Apparently in order to ship the organ, it was necessary to disassemble and separately crate it. The total transportation cost of the shipment, including the special handling costs attendant to dissembling the organ was pI

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