Mailing Services Offered

Priority Mail

At a time when saving money is crucial to operating a business, everyone is looking for ways to reduce spending while keeping our customers happy. Whether you are mailing invoices, account statements, direct marketing materials, or similar types of mail pieces, cost effectiveness, accuracy, and on-time delivery are crucial. Presort service providers can be the answer you are looking for to assist your business.

Working with a presort service provider is an ideal way to capitalize on maximizing postage discounts while processing your mail quickly and efficiently. Many pre-sorters also additional value added services that can assist you and help to improve you operations.

Presort service providers work with only the latest technology in postal automation in order to quickly and accurately process mail and have it ready to send. Using high-speed sorting machines and recognition systems just like those used by the United States Postal Service (USPS), presorters can automatically handle all functions such as: read addresses, add barcodes, and sort mail to the final destination zip codes. Once sorted by postal code, the mail is sorted into trays and delivered to the USPS for mailing at a discounted rate.

In order to obtain postage discounts, a mailer must have 150 pieces of mail or more destined for a specific 3- or 5-digit zip code. For individual mailers, this is hard to achieve. By combining several mailers jobs, a presort mailer has a better likelihood of reaching the 150-piece USPS minimum, increasing the range of discount for all customer orders.

Presorting the mail does not delay the mailing; it actually speeds up the process. The leg work so to speak is handled by the presort company and not handled by the USPS. Because the work arrives sorted by zip code it is quicker to make its way through the post office and out to the recipient. Through this cooperative work-sharing program, the USPS reduces their handling of the mail and therefore it moves faster through the postal system.

Presorting for postage saving is a not an old idea. Over the last decade, postal technology automation has continued to improve and be accessible to mailing companies. Mail processing equipment has become faster, optical character recognition systems have become more reliable and accurate, and computer programming is more efficient, allowing a broader range of mail to qualify for postage discounts. Newer technologies allow for reading of and barcoding of handwritten mail, flat mail, First Class, and Standard.

Even more challenging mail pieces are now able to benefit from these advanced technologies and therefore cheaper postage rates. These items include: catalogs, annual reports, company prospectuses, and similar materials. In the past these items required longer processing and higher mailing costs. To reduce these pressures, several presort providers offer services that can reduce postage of flats by up to 25% of the First Class postage rate by combining Standard rates with Priority mail.

The delivery time for this mail is almost the same as the average delivery time for First Class flats because it is drop-shipped via Priority Mail directly to the destination USPS mail processing facility, this allows mailers to earn maximum discounts on flat mail.

In addition to presorting mail, our vendors offer additional services that save mailers time, reduce costs, and provide first rate customer service. Our consumers benefit from services such as automatic address correction, a method of using postal automation technology to identify and correct invalid addresses before the mail piece is sorted and sent to the USPS for processing. Address correction improves mail deliverability and also minimizes wasted postage and mail piece production costs.

Other vendor services offered include data entry and documents conversion assistance that is cost competitive, faster, and more secure than traditional alternatives. As opposed to most data capturing operations, presort facilities now use the same imaging technology and automated processing equipment currently used to sort mail to handle their customers’ data capturing requirements.

Regardless of your mail volume and frequency, partnering with one of our professional mail houses for your presort needs can help you make your business more efficient while adding value to your bottom line.