@Weng said:
@utoxin said:Back of the envelope calculation reveals that the postage alone was at least half a million dollars. Depending on the amount of paper and ink involved, the numbers for total cost of materials alone could easily exceed a million dollars. Add in the time wasted dealing with the aftermath, and the number grows even more.Nah. Automation-rate postage is way cheaper than retail. With all the automation and bells and whistles a run this size would trigger, less than a quarter million in postage. Even hand-stuffing the envelopes, a print job this size wouldn't hithalf a million dollars. Auto-stuffing, it'd barely hit $300k even with nice letterheaded paper and custom envelopes. Maybe $500k for full-process color printing (which would be obscene for any sort of letter).
Okay, so I was off quite a bit. Still, 200k in postage, another 50-100k in supplies, and then all the time and upset partners and customers? That's a pretty darn pricey mistake. They should take it out of his salary. ;)