Re: Newsletter mailing costs

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

I'll offer my insight back when I did it.  My predecesor produced
something like 5 pages per issue, which consistently put the postage at
two ounces, but seemed wasteful.  So I changed the policy a little and
saved us a bundle:  When it was just a bit more material than once ounce
worth (i.e. 5 pages), I held off some of the material so that the whole
thing fit.  I found that things would either build up so that I had a
significantly larger bit of material the next month (i.e. 6 or 8 pages),
or nobody wrote anything the following month and I had enough stuff to
make the usual ounce.

  - Erik

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, June & Doug Olberding wrote:

> Help!
> Four pages of paper is all that will go for the 37 cents. I will have to
> edit really hard and/or leave something out to get in Presidents Words, Dr.
> Ghoti, Trading Post and the winner contest article.
> The next postage break is 60 cents which would let us go up to 8-9 pages.
> There is no in between on the postage.
> Question: Cut quality/content and save money or go to 60 cents if can't get
> it in four pages. 
> Cost of newsletter with postage is now about $1 each. Going up on postage
> would increase the cost to about $1.30 each plus increased printing cost. I
> don't know how much that would increase the price but not a great deal.
> 
> Please give me answer ASAP as I have personal reasons to want this ready for
> printer by Sat.
> 
> Thanks June
> 
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