Direct mail questions, answered plainly

It starts with the mail date, and that is set to suit the job rather than picked off a published calendar: tell us when the mail needs to be out and the quote is built around a partner that can meet it. From entry, First-Class pieces arrive in one to five business days and Marketing Mail in three to ten.

Not for EDDM, which reaches every address on the carrier routes you choose, and not for saturation mail, which reaches every household in the neighborhoods and ZIP codes you pick. To mail particular people, send your own customer or prospect list, or tell us who you want to reach and we build a list to those criteria for your mailing. Either way we clean it and tell you how many pieces will mail.

EDDM, or Every Door Direct Mail, is the USPS program that delivers to every address on the carrier routes you select — no mailing list, no names, no permit of your own. The piece has to qualify as a USPS flat, which our 6×11 postcard does on length. Tell us the ZIP codes, the routes or the area you want covered and the job is quoted for those routes, printed and entered by the print partner.

No. Everything mails under the USPS permit of the partner that prints your job, with its indicia on the piece, so you never pay permit or annual mailing fees. Nonprofits with their own USPS authorization can mail under it through us to get the nonprofit rate.

Anywhere in the continental United States, with dedicated pages for the sixty largest metros. Mail is printed by the partner that takes the job and entered into the USPS network for delivery, and every job is quoted for the city it mails to.

Yes, completely. You do not need a file of your own: we write the offer and design both sides, quoted with the job. If you already have artwork, send it and we preflight it free of charge; free templates for both sizes are there too.

Because pricing is set for each city and each job. Postage sorting, delivery entry, quantity, stock and the mail class all move the number, so a single national price list would be wrong for most mailings. A written quote for your city costs nothing.

Printing in full color on both sides on the stock listed, CASS and NCOA address processing, de-duplication, presort, Intelligent Mail barcodes, addressing, the postage statement, USPS entry, and USPS postage itself, each stated separately.

No. No setup fee, no permit fee, no annual mailing fee, no list-processing fee and no rush fee on standard turnaround. Optional items such as custom design are quoted separately and shown before you approve anything.

Yes. Printing and mail processing cost less per piece as the run grows, and postage falls slightly when a list is dense enough to sort to the 5-digit level. Tell us the quantity you are considering, or two quantities, and the quote shows both.

Minutes rather than days. A person puts each quote together — a dedicated representative who then stays with the job — so it is not a vending-machine price, but it comes back fast, in writing, priced for your city, and with no obligation.

Yes, and there are very few limits on what can be asked for. Custom sizes, specialty stocks, inserts, booklets, a short test run before you commit, or a very large volume: send the specification and the city through the form and it is quoted the same way.