Archive storage at Archive Peterborough -Ten Valid Reasons to move your archive to us.

1. Security.

Archive Peterborough is located in a prime position on the Orton Southgate industrial area. This area does not flood and is not subject to a crime wave. As businesses we watch out for eachother and act quickly if a 'risk' is detected. The outdoor compound has 2.4m pallisade fencing and the buildings have all the usual deterents and alarms and cameras etc. And even if someone dd want to try to take one of your files, they would have to have the bar code and know which building it is in and be able to drive a turret truck at 12.5 metres.

2. Specialist staff.

Running an archive warehouse looks easy. How complicated could it be? Big building full of boxes. All you have to do is know where your file is located and remember a 100 little technical errors on the system (1998 files were filed under 1997 etc.) and you'll find your file easily . Archive Peterborough database has around 1,500,000 SKUs - from folders to boxes. We service businesses throughout the UK because we have a large pool of highly experienced staff who can fulfil any function. When you outsource you buy into our investment in our staff. When you visit - please feel free to ask them any question.

3. Financially stable.

Archive Peterborough is part of a group of businesses (see about us). The financial stability comes from a good old fashioned Vicorian attitude to money. The group does not borrow more than it can pay back and it owns its assets. The group does not rent or lease buildings where it can buy outright and it owns the equipment and writes its own software. But most importantly the group is profitable - even in this current avoidable recession. If you are considering outsourcing your valuable archive check very carefully into the ability for the archive business to withstand a shock. Trying to get your records out of a fore-closed or wobbly archive business may not be the best way to spend a working week.

4. Flexibility.

Archive Peterborough is owner managed and a family business. Most of the staff have been with us for over 10 years and some for over 20. We run successful businesses in the service sector and so when we talk about flexibility, we mean thoroughout the business. Flexible in that we recognise that situations change; that contracts are for mutual benefit not safety nets; that people change and that we just need to get the job done before worrying about the cost sometimes. If urgent goes to emergency - the board need the hard copy accounts from 2006 NOW! we will find the fastest way to get the documents to you.. from scanning to motorbikes - if it is possible; we will get the job done.

5. Dedicated to the task.

Archive Peterborough is a serviced archive store within a larger strage business. We are not a carrier with some space in a rented unit or a heavy goods haulier or a farmer with some outbuildings, or a developer waiting for a buyer for a building, or a self store business with a few empty shells. We don't worry about HGVs, tachographs and MOT's for vans before we think about your stock - we spend every moment ensuring that your stakeholders are unaware that we exist.

6. Computer Systems.

The advent of bar-code technology and wireless computers made archive storage a simple process. Files do not need to be stored in ABC123 order on shelves. The bar code determines so many facts about a file or box. When was it last used or drawn? What is its destruction date? Where is it located? All these facts can be stored with the file locator and the file database interrogated to generate any report. Your file from 1998 has not been touched for 5 years but the file from 1997 is regularly called. This means we can locate the 1998 file in a deeper store tahn the 1997 - more efficient and that is passed to you in lower fees.

7. Clean up your database.

Moving an archive is the ideal time to clear dead files from your database and ensure that only the relevant information is stored. When the files are moved into us we will go through every file or box and, following your instructions we will re-code, destroy or quarantine to order. This valable opportunity to review enables both the client and our business to start with a cleaned database and ultimately drive some cost out of yor archive storage bill.

8. Clean up your archive.

The physical boxes can get into poor shape and may be wholly unsuitable for storage in any environment. The move is a great opportunity to get rid of old crushed or incorrectly sized cartons and boxes to replace them with purpose made archive storage boxes filled to comply with modern lifting standards. We see boxes that junior staff in offices are supposed to lift containing over 20 kilos of files. This is not only a hazard; it is a HSE issue with severe consequences if your staff file for injury compensation..

9. Very Narrow Aisle High bay storage.

Archive Peterborough uses a bar-coded system that allows for high density storage. This prevents too much air from circuating round the cartons and promotes a very high level of security as the unscrupulous person wishing to find the file or box would not only need to know the correct building but also know how to drive a VNA truck to a location only known if that person had infiltrated your in-house security. The tight storage reduces fire risk and paper burns very slowly when packed tight with lots of smoke. This enables the sensors to quickly detect any fire and activate the various prevention and suppression systems.

10. Cheerful.

Why is being cheerful a reason to outsource your serviced warehouse storage to Archive Peterborough? Because life is testing enough without tackling each day from the position of borderline psychotic. Dealing with problems cheerfully enables people (some say) to be more creative, think laterally and start from the perspective of 'what CAN I do?'. We all laugh at the 'computer says no..' sketch; at Archive Peterborough the computer says 'yes'or we beat it up until it says yes.

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