MAILING & DATA SERVICES

DIGILINK'S FULL SERVICE MAIL CENTER WILL SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY

DigiLink does it all, efficiently and cost effectively. As a complete mailing facility, DigiLink leads the way in implementing the latest postal innovations, such as Intelligent Mail Bar-coding and shape-based pricing.

Our technology lets us imprint addresses, stamp, and tab up to 11,000 pieces per hour in a single pass, decreasing your costs and speeding your mail on its way - all with a print quality no one can surpass. And our data analysis can help you target your mailings more accurately and track responses more precisely, letting you gauge the effectiveness of direct-mail projects.

DATA ANALYSIS

As part of DigiLink's complete mailing and data analysis services, we can help manage your mailing lists, target your direct-mail promotions more precisely, and analyze responses to gauge a campaign's effectiveness. We can slice your demographic data any way you choose. For instance, if you need to reach all individuals in a particular age range in a certain geographic area our sophisticated software can target them and track their responses, too.

KODAK VERSAMARK – UV ADDRESSING

Printing mail pieces with old-fashioned water-based inks can lead to smudged addresses, which undermine the impact of your designs and can result in delivery delays or even failures. But DigiLink's high-tech Kodak Versamark printer uses ultraviolet-cured inks to eliminate smudged addresses and get mail to recipients quickly and surely. And that's not all. Ultraviolet-cured inks allow us to print on coated stock, plastic cards, packaging, or almost anything. You simply can't find crisper, more readable print quality anywhere.

MAIL CLASSIFICATION

Preparing a mailing involves plenty of decision-making that will affect time, cost, and appearance of your project. Your Sales rep and Customer Support rep can help guide you through these choices.

  • First class
  • Standard
  • Nonprofit

MAILING FAQS

POSTAGE RATES

RATE CLASIFICATIONS

  • Postcard - 3 ½" X 5" – 4 ¼" X 6"
  • Letter – 4 ¼" X 6" up to 6 1/8" X 11 ½"
  • Flats – greater than 6 1/8" X 11 ½" up to 12" X 15"

ADDITIONAL POINTS TO CONSIDER

Weight (to the nearest 0.01 ounce) Database format (Excel 2003, Excel Vista, or Access, tab or comma delimited) Criteria for de-duping the mailing list Criteria for international mailing addresses Stamp choice—pre-canceled, live (and the specific design that you've chosen), or indicia Your expected "in-home" delivery date (especially for announcing dated events) Tabbing to current postal regulations Please provide us A hard copy or PDF of the mailing side A completed NCOA (National Change of Address) form is required for all First Class Discounted mail and will be required by the USPS for all mail after Nov. 23, 2008, to reduce undelivered mail

USPS NCOA

Download NCOA Form

Over 40 million Americans change their address annually, which creates formidable obstacles in maintaining a high-quality mailing list. The NCOALink® product makes change-of-address information available to mailers to help reduce undeliverable mail pieces before mail enters the mail stream.

In addition to change-of-address information, NCOALink also utilizes Return Codes to provide explanation of match and non-match status. Return Codes which indicate that a match was obtained are accompanied by a new address or undeliverable status. Return Codes which indicate a match was not obtained provide the reason a match could not be made to the NCOALink file. The analysis of Return Codes can help the mailer determine the deliverability of specific address records.

For more about NCOA visit the USPS website.