My lazy inclination is to avoid job ads that want submissions by snail-mail. First, my reprints have lots of color pictures and my advisor couldn't afford to buy them, so it would mean printing them out myself, which gets expensive, not to mention time-consuming. Second, I'm not sure I want to work at a school that hasn't caught up with the 20th century, to say nothing of the 21st. I think it speaks volumes about the administration.
What do you think, am I missing great opportunities here? Is it worthwhile to try emailing the department to ask if I can submit electronically instead (and just hope that they will take the time to look at my reprints online or print them out themselves)? Should I hire a personal assistant to deal with the printing and collating for me? I'm a postdoc, I don't have a lot of resources.