St. Louis aldermen committee adopts FY2026 postage and printing plan; director to notify members of allowances

The Personnel and Administration Committee of the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen on June 26 approved a plan to use a Pitney Bowes postage machine and existing Multigraph printing services for fiscal year 2026 and asked staff to notify aldermen about available allowances.

The committee adopted the administrative plan rather than locking in a specific dollar amount, after hearing staff estimates on machine and postage costs and committee members' questions about how the Multigraph budget is allocated.

Director Angracia briefed the committee on the plan and vendor quotes. "We're able to access... one of their nice machines for about $1,600 per year," Director Angracia said, and described the model's capacity as about "40 letters in the machine at a time, 95 letters going through per minute." Angracia also said the current first-class postage rate used in calculations is "69¢ right now per standard letter," and that an allocation equivalent to 200 first-class stamps per month per elected official would amount to…