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Add Digital to Your Mail with an Informed Delivery® Campaign
In our last blog we explained that Informed Delivery is a Postal Service program that sends consumers an email with grayscale images of the mail pieces that will arrive in their mailboxes soon. Black and white images are displayed of … Continue reading
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Optimize Your Mail with USPS Informed Delivery®
What is Informed Delivery? Informed Delivery is a Postal Service program that sends consumers an email with grayscale images of the mail pieces they will receive in the next day or two. Images are provided of the exterior, address-side of … Continue reading
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Postage Increase Implemented January 27th
The Chicagoland area (where J&Q is located), and the rest of the Midwest are coming out of the polar vortex – thank goodness! After surviving wind chills as low as -45 to -55 degrees on Wednesday, mailers are also experiencing … Continue reading
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USPS Brings Back Promotions in 2019
After a one year hiatus, the Postal Service® has announced mailing promotions for 2019. For the past few years the Postal Service has offered mailing promotions and price incentives to create awareness for new and innovative uses of mail. Due … Continue reading
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Postage Increase Announced for January 2019
On January 27, 2019 postage prices are going up, and for J&Q direct mail clients we estimate a $.007 to $.008 increase per package. In October the U.S. Postal Service filed a postal rate adjustment with the Postal Regulatory commission … Continue reading
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Postal Rates and a Bit of History
Running pony logo used by the U.S. Post Office Department before the creation of the USPS. If you are in the direct mail business you know that postage rates increased in January with First Class stamps … Continue reading
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Postal Price Increase Coming in January 2018
Here we go again – another USPS price increase is coming up in January. The Postal Service filed its 2018 postage rate proposals in October with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The PRC has approved the price increases, and they … Continue reading
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Direct Mail: Ideal for Customer Acquisition
Johnson & Quin is the first US Postal Service® customer to receive authorization for co-branded sales collateral. The USPS and J&Q are together promoting the use of direct mail in omni-channel campaigns, and specifically for customer acquisition. For businesses … Continue reading
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Postage Increases January 22 – Download our Postal Rate Guide
As you may know, postal rates are changing on January 22, 2017. For commercial mailers, some rates go up, some remain the same, and some actually decrease. When looking at all the changes, prices increase by about 1%. Here is … Continue reading
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Update Your 2017 Budgets – Postage Increases January 22
Price changes for First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, Periodical, and Package Service take effect on January 22, 2017. For consumers that means that the First-Class Forever Stamp increases from 47 cents to 49 cents (which was the price of a Forever … Continue reading
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