Chicago, Illinois · Chicago–Naperville–Elgin metro
Direct mail postcards in Chicago, IL
Postcards for Chicago and Cook County, by saturation route or from a list you bring: 77 neighborhoods, the North Shore, the western and southern suburbs, mailed for up to 60% less than the big online printers.
- 2.7 million residents in the city
- ZIP codes 606–608
- Entered through the Cardiss Collins Processing & Distribution Center
- Marketing Mail 3–5 days locally
Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, about 2.7 million people in 77 official community areas, inside a metro of 9.5 million that reaches into Indiana and Wisconsin. ZIP codes 606 through 608 cover the city and its nearest suburbs; the collar counties carry 600 through 605. The housing is a mix that suits every kind of mailing: bungalow belts and two-flats on the Northwest and Southwest Sides where routes are dense and residential enough to saturate, lakefront high-rises where a list of your own customers does better, and suburbs from Evanston to Orland Park that mail like any American suburb.
Chicago businesses have mailed for a century, from the catalog houses that invented the medium to today's real estate teams, dental groups, HVAC companies, pizza places and political campaigns. Winter is a mailing season here: heating, roofing and plumbing companies mail in September and October, tax preparers in January, and everyone mails the new movers who arrive each summer.
Who mails in Chicago?
Real estate agents farming the bungalow neighborhoods and the North Shore; home services companies mailing by home age, which in Chicago means almost every house; restaurants mailing menus to the two-flat and three-flat routes; dental and medical practices; the region's universities, museums and nonprofits; suburban car dealers; and the wards, aldermanic and county campaigns that run some of the heaviest political mail in the country. Chicago also has a large B2B mail market, with law firms, accounting practices and commercial services mailing the Loop and the suburban office corridors.
City versus suburbs
Inside the city, carrier routes on the Northwest and Southwest Sides and the far South Side are dense and largely residential, and saturating them is efficient. Along the lakefront from the Loop to Rogers Park, routes are dominated by apartment and condominium buildings, and the patients, members or past customers on a business's own list are the better audience. The suburbs mail like suburbs: every household around a business, and the owner's customer file for the rest. Many Chicago mailings cover both with one drop.
Weather and timing
Chicago mail seasons follow the weather. Heating and insulation offers land in late September; snow removal, plumbing and window replacement in October; tax and financial mail in January; landscaping, roofing and air conditioning in April; and mail aimed at new movers runs hardest from June through September, when most leases and closings happen.
Neighborhoods and suburbs we mail around Chicago
- Lincoln Park
- Lakeview
- Wicker Park
- Logan Square
- Hyde Park
- Beverly
- Edison Park
- Pilsen
- Bridgeport
- Evanston
- Oak Park
- Naperville
- Schaumburg
- Orland Park
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Direct mail in Chicago: questions people ask
How much does direct mail cost in Chicago?
Chicago jobs are priced one at a time, for the neighborhoods and the job, so there's no published figure to point to. Where in the city you mail is the big variable. Two-flat and bungalow routes on the Northwest and Southwest Sides can be saturated route by route, while the lakefront high-rises from the Loop to Rogers Park are better reached through the list you already keep, building by building.
Can you mail the Chicago suburbs and the city in one campaign?
Yes. A single mailing can include saturation routes in the city and routes or your own addresses in DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane and McHenry Counties, presorted together, with a different version for each area if the offer changes.
How long does mail take to arrive in Chicago?
Marketing Mail entered at the Chicago facility usually reaches city and suburban addresses in three to five business days; First-Class in one to three. Allow about two weeks end to end for Marketing Mail, counting printing and the next mail date on the print partner's schedule.
When should a heating company mail in Chicago?
Late September. That's when Chicago's heating and insulation offers land, a few weeks ahead of the October wave of plumbing, window and snow removal mail. A company that also sells air conditioning mails a second time in April, when roofing and landscaping go out too.
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