Color Postcard Printing
USA Printing Online offers you a wide range of postcard printing options. We use quality materials and processes to give you a superior product. Color postcard printing has a number of valuable benefits:
Self Promotion - Color postcard printing has legs. They can be seen and read numerous times once they reach their destination. Sell your service or product with mailers, handouts, or leave-behinds.
Branding - Keep your company name and message in front of your customers. Use color postcard printing to stand out from the crowd. (Learn more about Digital Printing)
Website Promotion - Send customers to your website with color postcard printing and give people the chance to find out more about you and your work.
Custom Sizes - If you have a color postcard printing project that involves a size that is not listed on this website, just click on a custom quote button, send us your request and we will respond within 24 hours.
Postal Regulations
Please note the requirements for proper automated handling of your postcard printing by the Post Office. Please be sure your backside layout or mailing panel complies with the proper template. You can find all the templates for your postcard printing project on the main postcard page. If you are planning on having your cards mailed by a mail house other than USA Printing Online, we recommend that you contact them to ensure that these templates will not present any problems.
Postcard Printing Processing Definitions
CASS Certification
Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) improves delivery of your postcard printing project and maximizes postage savings by adding Zip+4 codes to your mailing list where possible. The CASS Certification process also helps determine some address problems and standardizes addresses to Postal Service formatting. The correct Zip+4 will allow us to apply postal barcodes to your mail pieces, thereby qualifying your mail for Presort discounts.
Barcode Printing
Postnet barcodes are the small vertical lines in the lower right on your mail piece. The lines represent the Zip+4 codes. Barcodes enable automated processing of mail, which lowers mail-processing costs. Savings in processing costs at the Post Office are passed on to you through lower postage rates. The area in which the barcode is placed must be blank, as it will affect the rate of postage on all of your postcard printing.
Zip+4
This system enables the Post Office to sort your postcard printing and dispatch mail quickly and accurately. The first 5 numbers of the zip code identify an area of the country along with the Post Office where the mail will be delivered. The additional 4 digits identify a specific range of delivery addresses.
Postage Mailing Options
What is the difference between First Class and Bulk rate mailing?
First-Class Mail is your best choice for time-sensitive postcard printing mailings. It is generally delivered in 3-5 days nationally. U.S. Bulk rate, also known as Standard Mail, offers lower postage rates but with a longer delivery time. You can expect delivery in 10-14 days nationally. Also, First Class delivery is consistent throughout the year while Bulk rate can take considerably longer at peak mailing periods such as the holidays.
Mailing Standard size postcard printing at Bulk rate prices
It is seldom cost-effective to do so and may even cost more than mailing this size postcard printing at the First Class postcard rate. Bulk rate only offers discounts from the higher letter rate and does not offer lower postage for postcard size pieces.
Lower postage rates for Non Profit organizations
Non Profit groups can apply to the U.S. Postal Service for approval to mail their postcard printing at special Non Profit postage rates. This class of mail is a lower priced Bulk Mail rate with the same delivery timeframes. USA Printing Online will mail your postcard printing at this lower postage rate only after you have sent us the proper documentation. This includes a completed Postal Service Form 3623 plus a request for additional entry on company letterhead signed by an organization official.
Actual Postage rates
For your specific postcard printing project, postage is based upon the geographic concentration & quantity of actual postcards mailed. Example: A postcard printing of 10,000 cards mailed to a concentrated area in your own city will pay a much lower rate than a postcard printing of 1000 cards mailed to a list of widely scattered rural areas. One of the major factors in receiving discounted postage rates comes from preparing your postcard printing for mailing. For instance, sorting the postcards by Zip Code and delivering the postcards to a specific postal facility reduces the amount of work necessary from the Post Office. The Postal Service's costs are lowered, and so are your postcard printing rates.
Some of the Industry Groups that we have printed postcards for are:
- Real Estate postcard printing
- Medical postcard printing
- Insurance postcard printing
- Automotive postcard printing
- Construction postcard printing
- Banking postcard printing
- Fashion postcard printing
- Restaurant postcard printing
- Entertainment postcard printing
- Hotel postcard printing
- Oil and Gas postcard printing
- Transportation postcard printing
- Communications postcard printing
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