All you law, accounting, engineering, public service and big businesses that require storing boxes of records, especially offsite, the boxes you use makes a huge difference. Use letter-legal boxes, not Perma-file extra long boxes. They are way too flimsy to hold capacity weight without soon degrading from age and use. They do not hold well with stacking, the sides spread, the bottom fails. They are difficult to store. More important, the are difficult to move. You hate to move it? Just think of the people who have to move volumes of it. I have heard of the ELF (End Legal Files) movement in the 80’s, not much else (a good GQ).
So why are these back-breakers still around?
Anyway, this should have been a good hint that letter legal files, a smaller 1.2 cu ft. box is way better. The box design is stronger, stacks better, and is easily carried.