Help: Local Pub looking for a Printer/Mailer

[TakeMeAroundTown]

We publish a monthly, 32-average pages, saddle-stitched, publication, and are looking for a printer who will also be able to:

• include the addressees' info with bar-code (I have the software and can supply an excel file)
• print a mix of color and b&w pages on glossy laser paper
• ship it to our town's post office for distribution

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

[email protected]

 

[lfelton]

Sam, you need to let people know the run lengths, page size and actual paper stock you need.

Just about any commerical printer can do this for you. If the run lengths are tiny (a few hundred or less) then it could be done as a VDP job, but most of the time this kind of thing will be done on a press and the addresses, barcodes, postal information etc. overprinted using a high speed inkjet. With the right driers, you can overprint onto gloss, so you don't need to worry about that. You will also need the printer to polybag each one for you. Most times now, the overprinting and polybagging has been brought in house by the printer for simple jobs like this. The mailing houses mostly get the more complex jobs these days, like multiple inserts, hand insertions etc.

We'd do it for you, but as we're in the wrong continent, we'd best leave it to someone more local!

 

[Internal_R&D_Analyst]

A location would be nice too since this a local pub producing it on the other side of the country wouldn't necessary make since to mail from.

 

[Trollkiller]

A location would be nice too since this a local pub producing it on the other side of the country wouldn't necessary make since to mail from.

If it is being mailed the price is the same if it was mailed across the street or across the country.

 

[Internal_R&D_Analyst]

If it is being mailed the price is the same if it was mailed across the street or across the country.

Yea, if you're licking stamps and putting them on the pieces.

The cost to mail a two-ounce letter can range from 63 cents to as little as 12.7 cents – a difference of over 50 cents per piece.

Destination Entry Discounts
If you are mailing Standard Mail, Periodicals, Parcel Post, or Bound Printed Matter, you may be eligible for further discounts if you enter your mail closer to its destination.
-DBMC–Destination Bulk Mail Center (21 in the U.S.)
-DSCF–Destination Sectional Center Facility (350 in the U.S.)
-DDU–Destination Delivery Unit (local Post Office–over 33,000 in the U.S.)

Might be why they say shipped to our town's post office for distribution.

 

[Trollkiller]

Yea, if you're licking stamps and putting them on the pieces.

The cost to mail a two-ounce letter can range from 63 cents to as little as 12.7 cents – a difference of over 50 cents per piece.

Destination Entry Discounts
If you are mailing Standard Mail, Periodicals, Parcel Post, or Bound Printed Matter, you may be eligible for further discounts if you enter your mail closer to its destination.
-DBMC–Destination Bulk Mail Center (21 in the U.S.)
-DSCF–Destination Sectional Center Facility (350 in the U.S.)
-DDU–Destination Delivery Unit (local Post Office–over 33,000 in the U.S.)

Might be why they say shipped to our town's post office for distribution.

I am sorry I should have expanded on my answer but I was running late for work.

You can save some money shipping to a post office, but looking at the OP's website and the questions posed, I am assuming that this is a small quantity mailing. In that case the amount saved at the post office by shipping will be eaten up by the cost of verifying the mailing before shipping and by the cost of the shipping.

I am very doubtful that the OP will save anything by shipping to the local PO.

Instead of saying it is the same price I should have said "it will be about the same price."

This is what happens when I try to squeeze in just one more post before leaving for work.

I am just glad that we have a whole department to handle postal regulations and I am extra glad I am not in it.

 

[JimRoshan]

Did you ever find a printer/mailer for this job?