The town of Dublin may soon be transitioning back to traditional stamps after using a postage meter for almost a decade.
No decisions were made during Monday’s Select Board meeting as to whether the town will transition to traditional stamps or an online postage website like stamps.com, but all three Selectmen agreed that the meter was too costly for the amount of postage sent out by the town.
“It seems like renting a postage meter is a loosing endeavor,” said board chair Walter Snitko. “I think we’ve come to a partial decision; we are not going to rent a meter.”
Town Administrator Sherry Miller said that there is a small discount on shipping when using the postage meter, but the rental of the machine is much higher at $24.99 a month. Miller estimated the town does $1,500 in postage a year, not including the rental fee.
The town transitioned to a postage meter in 2008. Miller said that she and other department heads that use the machine would be okay with transitioning back to stamps.
The board agreed to allow local volunteers to clean up the town’s ball field in preparation for the upcoming baseball season.
Selectman Sturdy Thomas said the town will finally have a youth baseball team, something that hasn’t occurred in the past four or five years. The town has maintained the field to a certain degree every year, but the volunteers aim to get everything game day ready.
The Selectmen also spoke with Fire Chief Tom Vanderbilt, who talked to the board about a recent meeting of area fire chiefs at an Eversource facility in Manchester, a recent situation where one of the pieces of fire equipment was backed into the fire department door, and a few recent fires and incidents.
Nicholas Handy can be reached at 924-7172 ext. 235 or nhandy@ledgertranscript.com. He is also on Twitter @nhandyMLT.