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Re: Professional couriers for archival items?
Joy Kingsolver wrote:
> This is very interesting. We are in the midst of
> a microfilming project, and the company we are
> using always ships archival material (and expects
> to receive it) via UPS. We were told it was standard
> & perfectly safe. Now I'm wondering...
We (or rather our local/regional history organization whose business
overlaps with this department's) just had some long-lost portraits
shipped to us from Baltimore, by way of FedEx. Even with
extra insurance, they would only cover damage, not outright
loss.
One general suggestion--avoid marking "fragile" on anything
fragile ;-).
Ed "spent my share of time loading and unloading trucks" Frank
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