UC-Riverside Printing, Reprographics and Mailing: A Valuable Asset

“Let’s face it, there are so many people in the printing and mailing business, you have to be prepared to explain and justify your existence, have the stats at your fingertips,” he says, “and it’s so hard not to take that personally because you work hard and take pride in what you do.”

The in-plant’s mailing expertise and knowledge of postal discounts have saved the university thousands of dollars, Johnson says. For example, the University Extension division used to do its own mailing and ran up a bill of roughly $80,000 a year in stamps. When the university decided to let the in-plant handle that department’s mailing, the bill dropped to $45,000. This is the kind of data Johnson keeps close at hand, in case he has to use it to show how valuable the in-plant is to the university.