Print · Mail · Track · Nationwide
We print and mail 5×8.25 and 6×11 postcards anywhere in the United States, to your list or to every household in the neighborhoods you pick, through exclusive partnerships with the three largest print and mail companies in the country. Each of them has its own distribution and its own mail dates, so we price your job by where it goes and when it has to land. You get a written quote for up to 60% less than the big online printers charge.
Get your quote
That is all a written quote needs. It comes back priced for your city, with printing, mail processing and USPS postage stated separately, so you can see exactly where the savings are.
Two postcards
A 5×8.25 for offers, reminders and farming cards, and a 6×11 jumbo that owns the mailbox, built for saturating a neighborhood. Both on heavy cover stock, full color both sides, personalized per piece.
Offers, reminders, follow-ups and farming cards with room for a photo, an offer and a map.
Jumbo cards that own the mailbox: real estate, home services, restaurants, grand openings, neighborhood saturation.
Our work
Real cards in the two sizes we sell, from mailings we have printed and mailed for lawn care, water treatment and dental clients. Every one went through the press, the addressing line and the USPS. Yours is built the same way: one offer, a picture that earns the mailbox, and a clear way to respond.
Direct mail services
Looking for one job in particular? Go straight to bulk mailing, dental recall cards, auto repair direct mail, direct mail response rates or postcard sizes.
Why up to 60% less
Every direct mail job has three costs: printing, mail processing and postage. The big online printers roll them into one per-piece number. We quote them for your city and your job, which is why the same postcard costs up to 60% less here.
The big online printers fold printing, mail processing and postage into one per-piece number and set it at what the market will bear. We quote the three parts separately, priced for your city and your job, so the markup has nowhere to hide.
Postcards For Less has exclusive partnerships with the three largest print and mail companies in the US. Each one has its own distribution and its own mail dates, so your job is priced by where it is going and when it has to land, and booked where that comes out best.
A 5×8.25 and a 6×11 postcard cover nearly every direct mail job. Running two formats on repeat instead of forty keeps setup short and waste low, and that shows up in the quote.
USPS postage is set by the Postal Service and is the same for everyone. We pass it through at the rate your mailing earns and say so on the quote.
How it works
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A 5×8.25 or 6×11 postcard, to your list or saturating the neighborhoods you pick; how many, from 5,000 up; and which city. That is enough for a written quote, priced for your city.
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Send your artwork, or we design the card for you. Send your list, have one built to your criteria, or name the neighborhoods and ZIP codes to saturate. We clean the addresses and confirm the count.
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A digital proof with the address block and indicia in place, and the written quote for your city: printing, processing, postage. Nothing prints until you say so.
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Printed and entered on the mail date set with the partner that takes the job. Delivery scans by ZIP and day, and every response tracked to the drop that produced it.
Industries
Real EstateFarming, just-sold and market update cards
Dental & OrthodonticNew patient offers and recall cards
Restaurants & FoodSaturation coupon cards and grand openings
Home ServicesSeasonal offers by the age of the house
Healthcare & MedicalNew patient, recall and enrollment mail
Political & AdvocacyVoter-file cards and GOTV on a deadline
Nonprofit & FundraisingAppeals and invitations at nonprofit rates
Retail & Local BusinessGrand openings, sales and win-back cards
Why direct mail
Direct mail is read because it is physical: it arrives in the hand, sits on the counter and does not get filtered. The response numbers the industry publishes bear that out.
Nationwide
One production line, every ZIP code the USPS delivers to, and a quote priced for the city you are mailing. The sixty largest metros each have a page on the postal geography, the businesses that mail there and what works.
Guides
Guide · updated
The three lines on every quote, what moves each one, and six ways to cut the total.
Read the guideGuide · updated
The ANA's ranges by industry, the six things that move response, and how to plan the math.
Read the guideGuide · updated
Cost per response, attention (Royal Mail's MarketReach research), reach and measurement, and how to run both.
Read the guideGuide · updated
Why 5×8.25 and 6×11, the USPS size classes, clear zones and setting up the file.
Read the guideAnswers
The questions we get on almost every first call, with the answers we give.
It depends on the piece, the quantity, the mail class and the city it is going to, which is why we quote every job for its city instead of publishing a price list. Three things make up the cost: printing, mail processing and USPS postage. Send the size, the quantity and the city through the quote form and we send a written quote at up to 60% less than the big online printers.
The big online printers and full-service agencies fold printing, mail processing and postage into one blended per-piece price set at whatever the market bears. We source every job from the three largest print and mail companies in the US, run two postcard sizes instead of forty, and quote the three costs separately for your city and your job, so the markup has nowhere to hide.
Two: a 5×8.25 inch postcard and a 6×11 inch jumbo postcard, both on 14pt or 16pt cover stock in full color on both sides. Both mail as letter-size pieces, to your list or to every household in the neighborhoods you pick; the 6×11 is the one we suggest for whole neighborhoods. Postcards are all we print.
Yes. For now, orders start at 5,000 pieces. Every job is printed and mailed by one of our three national partners, and the quote is written for that quantity and up.
It starts with the mail date. Each of our three print partners has its own distribution and its own mail dates, so 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.
No. Saturation mail reaches every household in the neighborhoods and ZIP codes you choose, with no list at all. 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.
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.
Everywhere the USPS delivers: all 50 states, Washington DC and the US territories, with dedicated pages for the sixty largest metros. Mail is printed by whichever of our three partners covers the area and entered into the USPS network for delivery anywhere in the country, 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.
Request a free quote
Send the postcard size, the quantity and the city it is going to. Pricing is set for your city and your job, so you get a written quote — printing, mail processing and postage — with no obligation. No finished design or mailing list needed.
