State College Area School District is bringing its in-plant into the digital age.

By Ellen Kollie

To bring savings to the district by handling such mailings in-house, she acquired a Hasler WJ 220 mailing machine, a Hasler HT12 tabber with conveyer and a Hasler M3002 inserter with short feeder. She also arranged for the purchase of a first-class permit for bulk mailings.

“It allows us to take discounts on our first class mail, like report cards,” says Chambers. “If we’re mailing more than 150 pieces, I can recommend that we use the permit, which decreases the district’s cost. That’s increasingly important. Even though we’re a medium-sized district, 7,200 pieces, one to each family, is a lot of postage. We’re increasing bulk mailings with a small table-top inserter folder, and we’re addressing them with digital equipment. This is a service that was not provided before.”