Source: By Mary Beth Schneider, Indianapolis Star (IN), June 4, 2007
It's one of the smallest privatizations that Gov. Mitch Daniels has undertaken: the outsourcing of 66 jobs in state government printing, copying and mail services.
But to those employees, the decision to move their jobs to a contract with industry giant Pitney Bowes Inc. has been huge.
Source: By KENT FISCHER, The Dallas Morning News (TX), 07:38 AM CDT on Friday, May 12, 2006
Dallas school administrators are ending an outsourcing project with FedEx/Kinko's that was supposed to save taxpayers millions of dollars but instead doubled school spending on printing and copying. Expanding the deal to include all schools could cost taxpayers nearly $100 million over three years, administrators said Thursday, more than double the contract's original amount.