Most organizations lack access to their total equipment and postage expenses. If they have any information, it is from an occasional vendor spreadsheets, cryptic invoices, or online data; all of which lack detail.
The good news is that the Office of Inspector General provided the statistics that I was unable to obtain through multiple Freedom of Information Act requests.
This is an update to an article I published in 2012 that I thought is more relevant today with the mandatory USPS IMPB Package Barcode requirement for Priority and Express Mail coming in January 2015 that can increase costs by 7-78%.
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