Hi, my name is Christian and I've used shipping containers to store
"records."

As part of a litigation a rather large population of "records" were
identified in discovery as being subject to a hold order. Mostly it was
duplicates - convenience copies - held at an outlying facility. Their
normal retention was low - mostly expiring by or before the expected
settlement date of the litigation. As duplicates, they had no business
value, anything even remotely relevant to the litigation had been pulled in
prior reviews by both sides and neither side had any desire to wade through
the material again. The material was pelletized in the container - so no
shelving. Ultimately it sat untouched for several years (the expected
settlement date being off by several years), but once we got the blessing
to destroy, our shred/recycle company picked up the containers whole to
dump at their facility.

It was a cheap solution that allowed us to avoid the cost of boxing,
indexing, and  shelving the contents - I wouldn't replace my records center
with these things, but they can be a useful tool in certain circumstances.

                           Christian Meinke, CRM
                        Southern California Edison
                       Enterprise Resource Planning
                            Operations Support
                       Document & Records Management
                         (626) 543-7260/PAX 39260
                           Mobile (818) 414-9515
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