2008/9/24 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)gmail.com>om>:
With thousands of papers on backlog and limited
manpower resources,
it's probably far too large a task for them to start now. I'm
surprised that they haven't looked into turning this into a profit
source in some way, such as selling people newspapers from the day
they were born
Thing is, this is impractical. You need to keep everything in storage,
and you need to keep it all accessible, it's just that every now and
again you send out a tiny bit of the collection. It's essentially all
the downsides of keeping the collection but with a small amount of
your running costs covered.
The companies that do this tend to operate on very small margins, with
large warehouses, and concentrating on small timeframes. Everything
pre-1900 would be junked, for a start...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk