Then if the fees are to ensure that they recoup their expenses, those
fees should have an expiration date, whereby if you take your boxes out
before, say, 4 years, then you pay (kind of like the contract for your
cell phone). After the 4 years, they've zero'd out and the fees should
expire. But that's not the way it works. Not only are the fees for the
life of the contract, they increase along with all the other fees! So
the longer you stay, the worse it gets.

Nolene Sherman
Records Manager - CJ Segerstrom & Sons
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Roach, Bill J.
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Storage Vendor Contracts - Protection other than insurance

Instead, it was the smaller centers who were going to have to invest big
bucks in space, shelving, environmental controls and other sunk costs
that wanted to collect additional fees if the boxes were removed before
a specified date.  The reason for the "hostage fees" was to make sure
the vendor was able to recover the investment required to handle the
additional volume.

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