At 19:40 10/10/97 -0700, Dana Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sent two rolls kodacrome to A&I this is The first time. and it took 3 weeks >shipping time 2 days each way is this normal time?
Many larger photo stores have courrier service to Kodak labs, which should get you 3-5 day turn-around on Kodak processing. On a just-completed trip, I decided to try something different. I purchased Kodak PK36 mailers and sent my first batch of films by mail early in the trip. I mailed four films to the Kodak lab in NJ from the post office at Clearmon, WY, a tiny town just east of Sheridan. The films went into the mail mid-afternoon a week ago today. The first film from that batch was in my post office box this morning when I checked my mail. I assume the remaining films will show up tomorrow. One week service is really not bad, considering that the film probably first went into Sheridan, then from there to some larger city with scheduled air service on a major airline. Why from Clearmont, WY? The post office was right on the road I was on following BNSF tracks and the clerk on duty assured me that the outgoing mail would be picked up at 4:30 that afternoon. In any larger city, I would have spent time hunting for a post office. I also did not want the mailers sitting in a hot mailbox somewhere. I had already filled out the mailers prior to the trip and had already applied proper postage -- so I could have dropped off the mailers anywhere. The mailers plus postage were still about 20 per cent cheaper than Kodak processing offered through the local photo store, which also sends its processing to the same lab in NJ. -- Ernest -- Ernest H. Robl, Durham,NC,USA Stock photography; photojournalism; writing Specializing in travel and transportation subjects for more than 25 years. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +1 (919) 286-3845 Fax +1 (919) 286-1696 http://www.robl.w1.com "I'd rather be on the train." Intermodal Container FAQ: http://www.robl.w1.com/Transport/intermod.htm --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects
