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MLOCR comminglePresorting & mailing
Presort mail services in Staten Island
Presorting puts your mailing in the order the United States Postal Service (USPS) wants, so it can qualify for lower postage. At JMS Print & Mail, we validate your addresses, sort and prepare the pieces, and deliver them to USPS.
Presort in brief
What presort mail services are
Presorting means putting your mail in order before it reaches the Postal Service. Pieces are grouped by destination and placed in trays, which leaves the Postal Service less sorting to do. Mail that arrives sorted and prepared to its standards can qualify for lower postage rates.
The address decides which tray a piece goes in, so we validate every address first.
Postage rates and preparation rules are set by the Postal Service, not by us. We prepare your mailing for them, and the current rules are on usps.com (opens in a new tab).
Same mailingTwo ways to send it
- Unsorted
- Pieces reach the Postal Service in no set order, and it does the sorting.
- Presorted
- Pieces arrive grouped by destination, in trays, prepared to postal standards.
- The difference
- The sorting is already done, so the mailing can qualify for a lower postage rate.
What you get
What our Staten Island presort mail services include
- Address validation for every address on your list, including CASS address checks and NCOA change-of-address matching
- Presorting: pieces grouped by destination and placed in trays, so your mailing can qualify for lower postage rates
- Intelligent Mail barcoding (IMb), a barcode the Postal Service reads to sort mail
- Labeling of mailing pieces
- Machine insertion or hand assembly of the piece you plan to send
- Inserting and sealing, including wafer seals, the small adhesive tabs that close a folded piece
- Sorting, traying and delivery to USPS
Presort prepOptions include
- Mail classes
- First-Class, Standard and Nonprofit presort
- Piece types
- Letters, flats (large envelopes and similar oversized pieces), postcards and self-mailers
- Personalization
- Variable data printing (VDP), so each piece can carry its own name or offer
Two ways to reach presort rates
Presort on its own, or commingle with other mail
Presort
Your mailing is sorted and trayed on its own, then delivered to USPS.
Commingle
Your mail is combined with mail from other senders, so the whole batch can qualify for lower presort rates. Read about MLOCR commingle mail services.
Unsure which fits? Tell us what you are sending and when, and we will recommend one.
Before you send a job
What to send us for a presort job
- A mailing list, or a description of who you want to reach. No list yet? See our mailing list services.
- The piece itself: a print-ready PDF, or a design brief if you want us to design it. See Printing & design.
- Quantity, piece size and format: letter, postcard, flat or self-mailer.
- Anything that goes inside the envelope, and how to assemble it.
- Your target in-home date: the day you want the mail in mailboxes.
Small mailing? Give us your quantity and we will tell you how the Postal Service's presort requirements apply to it.
In-house
Presort prep is done in-house
We run a start-to-finish production facility and manage the process in-house, from data work and printing through mail preparation. Commingled sorting uses National Presort, Inc.'s equipment; see MLOCR commingle.
We prepare mailings for customers across the United States, from our base in Staten Island, NY. See the areas we serve.
Our quality management system is ISO 9001:2015 registered by SkillFront LLC, for the scope “Marketing & Advertising: Direct Mail and Digital Printing.” The ISO registration details are on our certifications page.
Related services
What goes alongside presorting
Data management & lists
Merge/purge, address validation and custom consumer or B2B lists before your mailing is sorted.
Data management & listsMail tracking
Ask about our live tracking system, which lets you monitor from a dashboard when mail reaches your customers' homes.
Mail trackingPostage and prep
Presort mail questions
How does presorting affect postage?
There is no single figure. Mail that arrives sorted and prepared to Postal Service standards can qualify for lower rates, and what applies to you depends on your piece type, mail class, quantity and address quality. We talk through how the rates apply when we quote.
Do you handle inserting and labeling?
Yes. We label pieces and assemble them by machine insertion or hand assembly, including inserting and sealing, then sort, tray and deliver the mailing to USPS. Tell us how the piece should go together and we will confirm the method. For the wider picture, see our direct mail services.
How much lead time should I allow?
Lead time depends on your artwork, quantity, list work and finishing, so we do not quote a standard number. Give us your target in-home date on the quote request form and we will confirm whether the schedule works. For list work, see data management.
Which mail classes can you presort?
Our presort options cover First-Class, Standard and Nonprofit mail. Which class fits depends on what you are mailing and to whom, and the Postal Service decides what qualifies. Describe the piece and the audience on the quote request form, and we will suggest the class that fits.
Describe the mailing you want presorted
Tell us what you are mailing, how many pieces and when it should land, and we will send a quote. Our hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.