Sorting bulk mail by zip code

All leftover mailpieces are combined together. Some beginning mailers choose not to presort their mail; instead, they pay the full First-Class Mail price, put stamps on their mailpieces, and drop them in a collection box.

That's easy! Other mailers don't want to presort their mail but still want to get the lower postage prices. Reduce the number of returns you receive, and eliminate addresses that will never reach their intended recipient or location before that piece even hits the mail stream.

Obtain the lowest possible postage rates by standardizing and presorting your lists. Do all of this, and more, right in one program. The most important part of any successful direct mail program is your data. Out-of-date or unverified data not only waste money on postage and materials, but if your mailpiece does not make it to its intended recipient, you receive no return on investment ROI.

Use these to standardize and verify addresses, identify undeliverable and unoccupied addresses, and update your data to the newest address for those who have moved.

Accurately and quickly prepare and sort your bulk mail to take advantage of the lowest postage rates available. You can prepare all necessary reports, container tags, and postal statements right from within AccuZIP6. Save your most commonly used presort settings as templates to quickly presort future bulk mailings with the same settings. Create drop shipments only when postal savings outweigh the cost of trips to each facility.

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You can drop a letter in a corner mailbox, bring it to the counter [to] hand it to a clerk or leave it in your own mailbox for the carrier. Or a big mailing firm might pull a tractor trailer up to a big sorting and bulk-distribution center. And then it cancels the [stamp] and applies the postmark. But those cases are pretty rare.

Once the mail has been canceled, it goes into the sorting part of the machine. The optical character reader will read the address and spray a bar code on the front of the of the mail piece that indicates [where it should go]. All that can be placed on planes or trucks and sent out of the sorting-and-distribution center to the local post office for delivery.

When the letter arrives at the local distribution-and-processing center, it gets put into machines that sort mail now—not by city or by zip code but by actual carrier route within the city. Now [when they] arrive in the morning, the mail is already delivered from the distribution center to the local post office, sorted in that walk order.