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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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