Mailing Services

Our mail presorting services save you money on postage and speed delivery time.

Our advanced mail presort technology lets us barcode and presort your mail according to 3 and 5 digit ZIP code. Presorted mail is easier and faster for the USPS to process. The ease of processing allows the Postal Service to charge us, and you, less postage. Whether it's first-class or standard mail, we get you the best possible postage rates. In order to accurately process mail and integrate it into the mail stream, we use high-speed sorting machines and recognition systems that are very similar to the ones used by the Postal Service. We can CASS certify your mail, spray barcodes (if necessary), and sort mail into the most accurate 'final destination' ZIP code. Once sorted by ZIP, the mail is put into trays and presented to the USPS for mailing at a discounted rate on your behalf.

CASS is a United States Postal Service (USPS) acronym for Coding Accuracy Support System. The term CASS is widely used by the USPS when they refer to the verification status of an address list. In order for an address list to receive CASS certification, it must be checked against the USPS Address Matching System (AMS) CD-ROM, and the 11-digit delivery point ZIP code and corresponding barcode must be added. Only addresses with the delivery point ZIP code and barcode are eligible for "automation" bulk mailing rates. A mailing list must undergo address verification every six months (every three months for carrier route mailings) and is particularly important to mailers because of the difference between the "automation" and "non-automation" mailing rates, which is about $.05 per piece. For a 10,000 piece mailing, CASS certification of the address list could save the mailer approximately $500.

Our mailing services department uses the latest CASS certification technology (in-house) to help our customers keep the cost of their mailings as low as possible and to ensure a high percentage of delivery success.

Gain better visibility into the mailstream, so you and your customers can drive better performance across business operations. Track N Trace® uses USPS® Informed Visibility® technology to provide unbeatable mailpiece intelligence and reporting.

Check up on the mailstream progress of any job at any time. Download reports in a wide variety of formats for maximum flexibility

Update, cleanse, and standardize address data against the latest National Change of Address (NCOA) database.

We validate each address in your database and match it against the latest USPS® database to ensure you have the most updated addresses.

Keeping your mailing list organized and up-to-date can be challenging. Let us manage and maintain it for you. We'll store your customer data securely in our database—updating it, weeding out bad addresses, and ensuring its accuracy every time. Our database management solution is designed to optimize delivery and ensure the best rate possible for all your mailings. It also makes it easy to personalize your materials and target your mailings based on predefined criteria. So before you try to go it alone with your mailings, give us a call. We're here to help.

The first step to cleaning any list is to eliminate duplicate records, also known as deduping. Alpha can merge lists together to get a “Best Record”, suppress lists against each other, find duplicates across lists or household records.

Personalization can play a key role in the success of your direct mail marketing campaigns. Even something as simple as a personalized headline or greeting can have a significant impact on response. That's where our state-of-the-art inkjet address service comes into play. Once we print your mailer, we can personalize it as we address it, all in one easy step. Choose any font you'd like, any size, and any ink color. Our equipment can even add a personalized or static headline or ad line anywhere on the mailer at the same time it's applying the address.

Prefer address labels instead? We can do that, too. We can even barcode and live stamp your pieces as they're being addressed, saving time and ensuring better accuracy. Our equipment can print on virtually any surface, including coated papers designed to withstand the wear-and-tear of automated Postal Service sorting equipment. It's just one of the many services our mailing department provides to ensure better results for you.

Whether a simple, one-page sales letter in an envelope or a multi-piece marketing kit (letter, several brochures, training CD, reply form, etc.), Alpha can put it all together for you accurately and fast. Our high-speed automatic inserters allow us to handle very large mailings with envelopes sizes up to 9" x 12". We've also perfected a fast and accurate method of hand insertion for those projects which cannot be done by machine.

Tabs, sometimes called wafer seals, are a USPS requirement that must be applied to all self-mailers. Tabs prevent the open edge of your mailer from jamming the Postal Service's high-speed processing equipment. Our mailing services department can apply one or two tab seals easily as part of our inline mail processing capabilities.

Alpha is USPS approved Full Service mailer. Full-Service Intelligent Mail offers mailers elimination of permit fees, address correction and visibility and tracking of mailings.

Benefits include:

Reduce Costs -Receive additional per
piece discount on automation mailings

Mail Anywhere - Eliminate permit fees by
using the same permit at any location

Accurate Delivery -Address Correction on
Full Service pieces

Monitor Service - Start the clock on mail entry visibility and tracking

Free ACS - Provided as an additional benefit for mail that qualifies for Full Service