Postage costs have declined since then due to a nearly complete change to electronic mail. During this time 154 papers were processed, and about 40 accepted for publication. Most authors provided useable electronic files. I would have wanted to support the keyboarding of a few third-world submissions. In cases of linguistic difficulty it was usually effective to suggest seeking help from a colleague.
Many economies are also available to commercial publishers.
We could stay with publishers and avoid this whole scenario if they would seriously address the cost and access issues. Less generous terms would just continue a process which will lead to the collapse of commercial journal publication. In some fields this collapse is nearly certain within ten years, and possible within five. Expenses of library publication must be borne by the publishing institution. Attempts to shift them to users will meet with the same problems of access and collection which make commercial electronic publication unattractive.