Re: Newsletter mailing costs

[June & Doug Olberding <jdolb1@comcast.net>]

My thoughts have been pretty much along the same lines. Either keep it to
the four page, 37 cent postage or go for the 6-8 page. At this point I
probably have enough for 6 pages and when I get Bob article, more.

I will do my editor thing and either go it down to 4 pages or do a biggie.
Oh the decisions editors have to make. ;->

Later when I have more time, I can rework the whole format and maybe harvest
some space.

I have some other observations and ideas to save money on the newsletter but
will save them for board discussion as they need decisions and would not
impact anything now.

June

on 9/25/03 9:05 PM, Erik Olson at erik@thekrib.com wrote:

> 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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