Direct mail printing and mailing services

Direct mail services cover printing and mailing physical pieces such as postcards, letters, or self mailers to homes and businesses. At Printing Partners we manage the entire process in one place: printing, mailing list preparation, addressing, presort, postal documentation, and delivering the mail to the USPS. Because nothing is handed to an outside vendor mid job, there are fewer delays and fewer chances for a piece to be lost between companies.

Yes, and that is the main reason customers come to us. Most printers hand you boxes and leave you to find a mail house, and most mail houses need you to deliver printed pieces on their schedule. We do both in one building on one job number. If something about the printed piece would break the postal sort, we catch it and fix it here rather than discovering it after the pieces have shipped across town.

Per piece cost depends on mail class, piece size, weight, quantity, and how finely your list can be presorted. Bulk mailing lowers postage by doing the sorting work the USPS would otherwise do, and the savings grow with volume and list density. Current rates by class are published on our bulk mailing rates page, and we will quote your specific piece against the classes that actually fit it.

Traditional direct mail uses a targeted mailing list, so you choose exactly who receives the piece and you can personalize it per record. Every Door Direct Mail reaches every address on a postal route with no list at all. EDDM is cheaper per piece and well suited to a local business saturating its own neighborhood. List based mail is the better choice whenever targeting, personalization, or measuring response by segment matters.

Yes. We run CASS certification to standardize and validate addresses against USPS records, NCOA processing to update anyone who has moved in the last 48 months, and deduplication to remove repeats. This improves deliverability, reduces returned mail, and often pays for itself, because postage spent on an undeliverable address is spent for nothing. If you do not have a list at all, we can help you source one by geography, demographic, or business type.

Yes, and for recurring mail that is usually the point. You send a data file on whatever cycle you run, and we merge it into the approved template, print, insert, sort, apply postage, and induct it into the mail stream. Nobody on your side touches a printer, a postage meter, or a postal form. This is how we handle statements, invoices, notices, and other transactional mail for organizations that would rather not own the equipment or the process.

Postcards, self mailers, personalized letters in envelopes, flyers, newsletters, catalogs, booklets, statements, and invoices. We also convert envelopes from flat stock, which means windows, sizes, and finishes are not limited to what an envelope catalog stocks. The practical limits are USPS size, thickness, and weight rules, plus whether the piece survives automated handling, and we check both before quoting.

Yes, through variable data printing. Names, offers, images, maps, account details, and entire content blocks can change per record. Personalized mail consistently outperforms undifferentiated bulk mail, and on transactional pieces such as statements and invoices every record is different by definition. Our variable data printing guide explains how the data merge works and how to structure a file so it merges cleanly.

Delivery depends on class and destination. Presort First Class typically lands in 1 to 3 days, while USPS Marketing Mail and EDDM typically take 3 to 10 days. Those are normal service expectations rather than guarantees, and the USPS does not guarantee delivery windows on these classes. Add production time before the drop. If you have a firm in home date, tell us and we will work backward from it to set the drop date.

No. You can mail under our permit, which is the simpler route for most customers and avoids annual fees for occasional mailers. If you already hold a permit, or you mail often enough that your own permit makes financial sense, we will mail under yours instead. Either way we print the indicia or permit imprint directly on the piece, so nothing needs to be metered or stamped at send time.

You can reach the person running your job, visit the plant, and approve color at the press. Fewer handoffs mean fewer transit days and less opportunity for damage, since printed pieces never travel between separate vendors. For high volume or deadline driven campaigns that access is the practical difference between a problem being fixed and a problem being explained. Our equipment list shows what we run in house.

Tell us four things: what the piece is, how many you are mailing, whether you have a list, and the date it needs to be in home. For a sense of finished work, see our political campaign mail examples. From that we recommend a mail class and format, quote it, and give you a production schedule with the drop date. Send artwork if you have it, or our design team can build the piece to postal specification from the start. Call 317-635-2282 or request a quote below.