There are costs other than volume of course, but if most wills are five or six sheets of paper then you can pack a million of them into one shipping container.

There are costs other than volume of course, but if most wills are five or six sheets of paper then you can pack a million of them into one shipping container. A4 is 1/16th of a square metre, so on 80gsm paper with a density of 1.2x water, 1MW (mega will) is about 25m³. An ISO standard TEU shipping container has a volume of about 30m³. If you spaced everything out 10x you’d still only need 650 containers for all of the UK. That’s about 3% of the volume of a regular container ship, or roughly the number of containers you might see in a Hollywood standard bad guy dockyard confrontation movie scene.