Allied Printing Trades Council bug on the piece. Lawn signs, mailers, buttons and banners printed in our own shop — and mailed from the same floor, under our own permit. We've been the shop Portland's labor organizations and campaigns call for sixty years.
If your members, your endorsers or your bylaws expect the bug on the piece, we can put it there. It's not a graphic we drop in as a favor — it's a label we're entitled to use because the work is done by union hands in a union shop.
That matters when a piece has to survive a floor vote, an endorsement questionnaire, or a member who turns the mailer over to check the back. Nobody has to take our word for it or yours.
Tell us at quote time whether the bug goes on, and where you want it.
Placed on the artwork before it runs — just tell us at quote time.
Two kinds of deadline, one shop. Most of what we print goes out with a date attached.
Locals, councils, federations and affiliates. The recurring stuff and the fire drills both.
Candidates, ballot measures, PACs and independent expenditure committees. Everything on a drop date.
Most printers hand your mail off to a third party, and a lot of campaign mail gets shipped to a firm out of state entirely. We print the piece and mail it from the same floor: addressed, sorted, and handed to the Post Office.
One vendor, one invoice, and one phone number to call when a drop date moves.
A piece printed union and then handed to a non-union mail shop is a conversation nobody wants to have. Here both halves happen in the same building, and the bug on the front is accurate about how the whole job was produced.
Your printing and mailing spend goes to a Portland shop with local employees, not to a vendor two time zones away. For a labor or political buyer, that's usually the point.
Ballots land in Oregon mailboxes well before Election Day, which means persuasion mail that arrives afterward is money spent talking to people who already voted. General election is November 3, 2026 — bring us your drop dates early and we'll build the schedule backward from them.
Sixty years of filing deadlines, endorsement votes, contract fights and election nights. You don't have to explain why a date can't move.
No handoff between a printer and a mail house, which is where campaign schedules usually break. One shop owns the whole timeline.
A family shop, not a portal. When something changes at nine at night before a drop, you're calling someone who knows your job.
When it has to be in hand or in mailboxes. Quantity, size and artwork can follow — call before you have a file if it helps.
Printing, mailing and postage broken out separately, with the proof and drop dates the schedule depends on.
You approve a proof, we print with the bug if you want it, and it drops. One invoice at the end.
Call and tell us what you're up against — what it is, how many, when it has to land, and whether it needs the bug. Mon–Fri, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.
