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Erik Schill
Film Handler
Posts: 38
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-15-2000 11:04 PM
does anyone find that Airborne is really sketchy with drop off times, Every thursday Technicolor always has the prints there promptly at 11:00am, however, our airborne prints don't come in sometimes till 6:00pm or later, once in a great while they'll be there before noon, but that is a ratety, the other day we has a sneak of something, don't remember what, and the sneek was at 7:10, and we didn't get the print till like 5:30 that night
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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-15-2000 11:53 PM
Eric made the statement that the Technicolor prints were there promptly as shoudl be, but the Airborne prints were always late.. or something to that effect...My point.. from everything *I* have been told, Airborne is basically the *sole* delivery system for Technicolor prints and have been for, what, two+ years now? I read here that they could now use UPS & USPS if need be in more rural areas.. Correct me if I am wrong... ------------------
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!
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Scott Norwood
Film God
Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-16-2000 05:45 AM
Interestingly, in smaller towns, it is fairly common for the "Airborne" drivers to not really be Airborne employees at all, but rather so-called "subcontractors." In other words, it's people who deliver movies on Thursday nights as a part-time job. These are the people who would show up at 9:00pm to pick up a print of a film that was scheduled to end at 9:15. Anyway, they seemed alright...instead of being the big, strong Airborne gorillas, they were usually incapable of carrying shipping cases filled with film without using a special little wheeled dolly thing that looked like it was designed for transporting film containers.Oh, BTW, does anyone else think that ICC film shipping cases were really poorly designed? It's as if they're intentionally designed to roll over and crash into things if you try to put them in a car in an upright position. The only way to transport these is to either wedge them between the front and back seats or to lay them flat in the trunk or back of a station wagon, where they will slide all over the place and make thumping noises. I guess the one good thing about Airborne is that they charge only $16 per film, which is about half of what ETS does, both of which are a bargain compared to shipping films via UPS (to/from Kit Parker, etc.) at $40-50 each way. My favorite shipping company is FedEx, but they almost never ship films, unfortunately. They're pretty expensive, but they deliver on time and don't damage things. Just don't send anything via "FedEx Ground" which is the old RPS, which does tend to damage things...
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