[Leica] Kodachrome processing in the USA

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:10 PM -0500 2/6/06, EPL wrote:
>Tom Westbrook wrote:
>
>>
>>I've never used mailers before. Does the $8.99 include postage both
>>ways? If so they are a better deal than mailing film yourself to
>>Dwayne's. How long do the mailers take to get the film back? When I mail
>>Kodachrome myself it takes about a week round trip.
>>
>
>You put postage stamps to cover 2 ounces on the mailer, and that's it. They
>cover return postage.
>
>I skip even that by dropping the film & mailer at my local pharmacy and they
>take care of the rest, sans postage stamps. You may be able to do this too,
>or perhaps via your local camera shop if they are Qualex customers.
>
>I get my film back in 10-14 days (which I consider a most genteel pace, as
>from an unstressed bygone era), but I am in Canada.
>
>Emanuel

Here on the West Coast it's unfortunately gone beyond genteel, as I 
can rarely get them back within a month. By that time my memory and 
interest have waned.

Also, like some others, I've had bad experiences in the last years 
with scratched and dirty film, not to mention badly cut frames and 
sometimes chemical errors. I just can't trust it enough anymore, so I 
don't use it.

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