I am use a professional bulk mailing company in my election campaign. (You rejected me as a Libertarian Party Candidate, but I am still a candidate in the United States Chess Federation election).
They charge a total of $550 to mail one thousand large sized postcards. That includes everything, printing of the postcards, postage at bulk mail rates, carrying them to the post office, etc. I once went to the General Post Office at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street and applied for a bulk mail permit on the second floor. I found the procedure so complicated that I decided I was better off just paying somebody to do it. I will be sending 2,000 postcards next week for starters. Sam Sloan On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:12 PM, gary popkin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can use bulk mail rates if you send 200 or more pieces to zip codes that > have the same three digits (for example, all of Brooklyn has zip codes in > the form 112xx). The postage is around $.25 per piece. You can get lower > rates if you have hundreds of pieces to send to the same five-digit zip > code. > > There is complete discussion of the rates and requirements on the usps.com > site. The issue is: do we know someone with a bulk mail permit who will let > us use it? There is no legal restriction on lending out a permit. The annual > permit fee is $185, aside from any postage costs. You can do bulk mailing > with pre-canceled stamps, a postage meter, or an imprint. If you want to buy > an imprint number, there is a one-time fee of $185. See page 34 of this > document. > > --- On Fri, 5/15/09, Chris Edes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Do we have the ability to send postal mail in bulk at reduced rates? If > not, how much would it cost? Presumably, there is some threshold at > which it becomes cost effective to acquire a bulk mail permit. > > I believe we've touched on the subject before on this list, and someone > had the information in memory. If not, could someone please make > inquiries with the post office?
