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A full-service mailing house in Portland, Oregon

We're a mailing house and a print shop in the same building. Postcards, newsletters, EDDM, bulk and standard mail — printed, addressed, sorted and handed to the Post Office under our own permit. Family-run here since 1964.

We mail under our own permit
CASS certified · NCOA processing

Three things we'll ask you first

  • How many pieces are going out?
  • When does it need to land?
  • Do you have a mailing list?

"No" to the last one is a normal answer. That's what EDDM is for.

Mailing Services

What a mailing house actually does

Getting mail out the door is four separate jobs. We do all four, which is why there's one invoice at the end instead of three.

Bulk & standard mail

Sorted, prepared and delivered to the Post Office under our permit.

  • Postcards and self-mailers
  • Letters and envelopes
  • Newsletters and periodicals
  • Membership and dues mail
  • Statements and notices

EDDM

Every Door Direct Mail — reach every address on a carrier route without buying a list.

  • Pick neighborhoods or routes
  • No mailing list required
  • Good for local saturation
  • Restaurants, clinics, trades
  • New-location announcements

List services

A clean list is the difference between mail that lands and mail that comes back.

  • CASS-certified addressing
  • NCOA move updates
  • Standardization and dedupe
  • Work your list or your consultant's
  • Ongoing list maintenance
List Hygiene

CASS certified and NCOA processed, every time

Two things quietly decide whether a mailing works. Whether the addresses are formatted the way the Post Office expects, and whether the people on your list still live there.

CASS certification means we run your addresses against the Postal Service's own database and correct them to the standard format — right ZIP+4, right abbreviations, right delivery point.

NCOA is the national change-of-address file. Roughly one in ten American households moves in a given year. Running your list against NCOA catches the ones who did.

Why it matters if you've never mailed before.

Every bad address is a piece you paid to print and paid to mail that nobody read. On a list that hasn't been cleaned in a few years, that can be a meaningful slice of the drop.

Bring us whatever you've got

  • A spreadsheet you've kept for years
  • An export from your CRM or member database
  • A list from your agency or consultant
  • Three lists that overlap and need merging
  • No list at all — that's what EDDM is for
One Roof

You don't need a permit, an account, or a second vendor

Most printers hand your mailing to somebody else. Most mailing houses can't print. Doing both in one building removes the handoff — which, in our experience, is where drop dates usually break.

We mail under our own permit.

No Post Office account to open on your end, no annual permit fee, no paperwork before your first drop. You approve the piece and the date; we handle the rest.

Already have a printer? Keep them.

A lot of our mail work arrives as somebody else's printed piece, or a file off a corporate brand portal. You can hire us for the mailing alone.

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Finishing and fulfillment

  • Folding and scoring
  • Inserting and envelope stuffing
  • Tabbing and sealing
  • Hand assembly for odd pieces
  • Staged drops across multiple dates
  • Recurring monthly and quarterly mailings

What people mail with us

If it goes in a mailbox, we've probably run it.

Postcards Self-mailers Letters & envelopes Newsletters Periodicals Membership renewals Dues notices Fundraising appeals Year-end letters Statements & invoices HOA notices New-mover mailers Grand openings Service reminders Event invitations Campaign & political mail

How a mailing goes

1

Tell us the basics

How many, when it lands, and whether you have a list. Artwork can come later.

2

We quote it

Printing, mailing and postage broken out separately, so you can see what's what.

3

List and proof

We run CASS and NCOA on the list while you approve the printed proof.

4

It drops

Printed, addressed, sorted, and into the mail stream. One invoice at the end.

Questions we get a lot

Do I need my own mailing permit?

No. We mail under ours. There's no Post Office account to set up and no annual permit fee on your end.

I don't have a mailing list. Can I still mail?

Yes — that's what EDDM is for. You pick the neighborhoods or carrier routes, and every address on them gets your piece. No list required.

Can you mail something you didn't print?

Yes. Plenty of our mail work comes in as another printer's piece or a file off a corporate brand portal. Keep your printer — we'll handle the mailing.

My list is old. Is that a problem?

It's the normal situation, and it's fixable. CASS corrects the formatting and NCOA catches the people who moved. Send it over and we'll see what we're working with.

What does a mailing cost?

It depends on the piece, the quantity, the list and the postage class — so we quote rather than publish a price. Tell us those four things and you'll get a real number.

Do you do recurring mailings?

Yes, and they're most of what we do — monthly statements, quarterly newsletters, annual appeals, staged drops across several dates.

Got a mailing coming up?

Tell us how many, when it needs to land, and whether you've got a list. That's enough for us to give you a real answer. Mon–Fri, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.

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