IMS provides Bulk Mail services including, advanced lettershop services and high speed laser printing services. Bulk Mail offers a unique opportunity to selectively target the most highly responsive audience for your marketing dollar at postage rates considerably lower than 1st Class rates.

Bulk Mail is 200 or more identical items such as letters, flyers, catalogues, newsletters, etc. It is now officially called Standard Mail A, but is still unofficially called Direct Mail and was previously called 3rd Class.

Bulk Mail items we print and mail include:
Flyers
Postcards
Letters
Leads Fulfillments
Solicitation Letters
Seeded Address Letters
Same Letter to a Database
Marketing Letters

To fully realize the lowest possible postage rates given to Bulk and Direct mailings, your addresses must be processed to the latest USPS standards. There are three ways to utilize our mailing services. They are Enhanced Carrier Route, Automated (barcoded) and Non-Automated. When you use IMS to handle your Bulk Mail, we use the latest USPS software to ensure that you get the lowest postage rates possible.

Money saving automated postal services we offer include:
Zip Correction (CASS) & Postal Presorting (PAVE)
Data impression printing barcodes on envelopes
Duplicate Elimination
Bar coding
Address Standardization
NCOA
PLANET barcoding, a new service of the USPS used to track both inbound and outboud letter mail

Other Bulk Mail services provided by IMS are:
Database Management
Custom Programming
Document Personalization
Data entry and barcode scanning for list updating and response analysis

To see if your mail qualifies for Standard A rates, click here.

Postage and Direct FAQs

To find out more about printing and mailing, call 800-255-3190, or complete the Request More Information form below.