First Class Service

UW spends about $4.2 million annually on postage, and the automated metering, bar coding and sorting equipment is helping to save about 6¢ per first class letter.

Money is also saved by using postal incentives.

"A big one is International Priority Airmail," says Bay. "Because we're a central receiver, we [consolidate] the mail, and presort it and deliver it that way. When it shows up already sorted, it saves the post office money. They pass that savings onto us, and we pass [most of] it back to the departments."