Re: Alternatives to Iron Mountain

We'll keep rolling our own in mind also. We have a plant reasonably far
enough away to be out of tornado path but not so far away as to make
fetching the tapes a hardship.

The problem is that budget cuts have been so severe that they've done away
with couriers, company cars, and now even paying employees mileage between
plants is one of the reasons that we've went with Iron Mountain. We have
one employee (and his son) who both drive separately by that plant and
they work in this department. But he's a former teamster and is pretty
honked at budget cuts. You start adding up mileage, time and stuff and
these other places don't look unreasonable. It's the service that was
galling us: "Thou shalt have someone key in a pin that we dropped
off/picked up tapes. This person shall forfeit lunch hour, get called out
of company meetings and whatever it takes to key in the pin number because
we will be there as we see fit."

Rob Berendt