Direct Mail
Your advertising dollar is an important investment! We ensure your mail reaches the post office quickly and at the lowest possible postage rate. We are conveniently located near the USPS, serving businesses throughout the U.S.
Our commitment is to maintain a high production standard in direct mail and to help promote and expand your business.
Our dedication, experience, and state-of-the-art equipment provides you with 100% customer satisfaction, start to finish, and as always....
Mailing done right is still the most effective way of communicating to your clients. Let us help you drive more business to your company.
- Inkjetting - addressing mailing pieces with ink directly onto the piece
- Tabbing - adhering a wafer seal onto self-mailers for closure, to ensure automated postage discounts
- Laser Printing - generally consists of personalizing letters, either simplex (printed on one side), or duplex (printed on both sides). Typically folded and inserted into an envelope, often with a business reply envelope.
- Folding - Usually a standard 8 ½" X 11" letter folded in thirds, to accommodate a # 10 envelope, or in half to a 8 ½" X 5 ½", to be inserted into a 6" X 9" envelope.
Or perhaps an 8 ½"X 14" letter to be folded in half, and half again (accomplished in one pass on the folder) to accommodate a # 10 regular envelope.
Occasionally, there will be a call to fold an 11" X 17" piece in half in one direction, and in half the other way (considered a "right angle" fold) to a final size of 5 ½" X 8 ½".
- Inserting - pieces are put into an envelope by machine, and automatically sealed. Our machine will accommodate # 10 envelopes (regular and window), 6" X 9" envelopes and # 11 envelopes, as well as many unusual sizes, as long as they meet specific criteria necessary to be machineable.
- Hand Fulfillment - When envelopes are 9" X 12", or 10" X 13", or "catalog style" (open the short way, rather than the long way, which is referred to as "booklet style") or has a flap that is over 1 ½" long. Custom projects, such as packing boxes to be shipped, or other specialty jobs, may require this process.
- Labeling - adhering a pressure sensitive label to a mail piece. This is necessary in cases where a place to address is not included on a mail piece design, or an aqueous coating is applied for quick drying by the printer, which prevents ink from sticking to a mail piece directly.
- Stamping - adhering a live postage stamp to the mailing piece, done by machine.
- Metering - to print postage on a mail piece with neon orange ink; how many bills are received.
- Data Processing - refers to any procedure performed to a data file. Examples include CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) Certification, which appends a "plus four" to a zip code, and assigns a Carrier Route and Delivery Point Barcode. These are all the things that help secure greater postage discounts.
The merging and purging of multiple files (adding files together and removing duplicate records) also falls into this category and is paramount to a cost effective mailing.
- Database Management - keeping client's files up to date, generally by adding new customers to their database, changing addresses of people who have moved and deleting records that have proved to be non-deliverable.
Snap-A-Parts - Two sided mailpiece, perforated both sides, to be torn off and opened. It is optional to have a coupon or check attached to view or to fall out and away from the piece.
We are a true multi-service agency, providing a full range of media, creative & production services from a single contact point.