Addressing, hand or machine inserting and bulk mail processing.

Accurate, thorough, and effective bulk mail processing allows you to take advantage of a wide variety of United States Postal Service discounts. The procedures and regulations regarding the processing of bulk mail are complex, interrelated, and ever changing. Carlton's focus on quality provides you with the full range of processing services and ensures that you can take advantage of all available USPS discounts.

Maximum Postal Service discounts are only available for those mailings that have certain USPS identifiers within each record. These identifiers include the 5-digit Zip Code, 9-digit Zip+4, and the Carrier Route Code, as well as Delivery Point Barcode and Line of Travel. To qualify for these discounts, these Codes must have been applied by a system that has received CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) cerfitication. Carlton's system is CASS certified and has Accuracy Ratings that are consistently among the highest in the nation.

To take advantage of the postage discounts, the USPS Codes are used to sort the mail prior to it being delivered to the Post Office. The mail is sorted in accordance with USPS procedures that require as little human intervention as possible to get the mail to its destination. Sorting to the Carrier Route level with Line of Travel allows for the greatest postage discount. Sorting to Zip Codes or SCF (the first three digits of a Zip code) can qualify for one of the other discounted levels.

Labels are available in either Cheshire (machine affixed) or pressure sensitive (hand affixed). Our quality assurance procedures ensure clean, sharp, legible labels to both ease delivery and impress the recipient.

Described by the Postmaster General as "the key to delivering the future," barcoding technology allows mail to be sorted and routed automatically. Automation provides greater cost-efficiency and allows for quicker delivery. USPS ensourages use of barcoding with postage savings for barcoded mailings.

Labels are affixed to either an envelope or self-mailer. They are then sorted, tagged, and sacked or trayed according to postal regulations. With mail delivered to the Postal Service on time, this phase of your project is completed as scheduled.

While most bulk mail is Third Class, the USPS also offers postage discounts for First Class mail. By using bulk mail processing services such as USPS Coding, postal presort, and barcoding, you can reduce your First Class postage costs by over 20%. Mail is delivered faster and more accurately.

Direct impression addressing increases response rates. Just a 1% increase in response rate can mean a 33% increase in sales. This is an opportunity to lead the way with your mailing. Energy, efficiency, image, every aspect of business eventually translates into dollars and cents. Self-mailers as well as envelopes can have up to 7 lines of address plus postal barcode.

Automatic fail-safe barcode determination and printing allows you to experience even lower cost for mailings. Automation saves money. With the barcode capabilities, as well as the "look" of direct impression, your mail piece will go further to portray a high image for your company. Plus, it gives you faster delivery and faster return.