Lette'r Rip Mailing Services can save you money on postage...

Preparing a mailing for discounted postage rates involves following many required procedures for it to be accepted by the Post Office. We are able to do this preparation work for you, including mailpiece design standards, address standardsTo qualify for automation prices, addresses must be sufficiently complete to enable matching to the current USPS ZIP+4 product when used with current CASS-certified address matching software--Domestic Mail Manual 243 7.4.1. Our software can determine if your address is complete including directionals and suffixes and will flag any addresses that are not complete., move update standardsThe Move Update standard is a means of reducing the number of mailpieces in a mailing that require forwarding, return, or discard by the periodic matching of a mailer's address records with customer-filed change-of-address orders received and maintained by the USPS. Domestic Mail Manual 233 3.5.1, barcode standards, properly sequencing (sorting) the addresses Presort is the process by which a mailer prepares mail so that it is sorted to at least the finest extent required by the standards for the price claimed. Generally, presort is performed sequentially, from the lowest (finest) level to the highest level, to those destinations specified by standard and is completed at each level before the next level is prepared. Domestic Mail Manual 235 1.1, bundling and preparing the mail in trays or sacks and preparing the proper paperwork. By letting us prepare your mailing, we deal with all the head-spinning regulations required by the post office. If all those are met, you get the lowest rate possible from the post office because we are saving them steps in the processing of your mailing and therefore saving you money and time... that's our business!

We use USPS approved software that is CASS/PAVE certified to CASS-certify your database, to create the required barcode, to prepare your mail in the proper sequence and to generate the required postal paperwork. This enables you to get the best postage discount possible for mailings of 200 or more pieces mailing at a standard postage rate or 500 or more pieces mailing at a presort first class rate.

CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) is the function that corrects, standardizes and adds Zip+4 and carrier route codes in compliance with the USPS criteria. It works in conjunction with DPV™ and LACS^Link™ to reduce Undeliverable As Addressed (UAA) mail and to increase address accuracy.

PAVE (Presort Accuracy, Validation, and Evaluation) certified software ensures that your mailing is properly presorted according to Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) standards to obtain maximum discount and that all the necessary reports and container labels are generated.

Classes of Mail:

• First Class
• Presort First Class
• Presort Standard
• Bound Printed Matter
• Non-Profit
• Simplified Address
• Carrier Route
• Walk Sequence

We can also save you the cost of the annual bulk mail permit fee of $190 by allowing you to use our permit. We have permits for presort 1st class and presort standard. Even Non-Profit organizations that are authorized by the Postal Service to mail at the Nonprofit Standard mail prices can use our permit and still get the Nonprofit Standard postage rates.

Contact us to discuss your mailing needs, to help you design material that will meet Post Office regulations and to determine which class of mail would be most effective for you.

TIP: If you are mailing a postcard (between 3 1/2 x 5 or 4 1/4 x 6) then check with us first. It may be cheaper to mail it presort first class.