Can you help me with sending a bulk mailing for a nonproit?

Question

I am an intern with a nonprofit organization. I have 800+ envelopes that I have stuffed and now need to send out in a bulk mailing. I'm having trouble getting actual answers from the post office over the phone. My boss needs to know how much this is going to cost before we take it to the post office because we need to get the check written and approved. I was told to sort the mail with the first 3 numbers being the same and have only a few outside of that specification that can be mailed separately. I am having trouble even with the terms "machineable", "nonmachineable" and "automatic" on the guides online. I don't even know if I need to sort these into trays for the post office ahead of time. The mailing is a single sheet in a business envelope. The organization does have a bulk mailing/nonprofit number that I will be able to utilize. Thank you so much for assisting me in this!

Answer 1

The post office has the most useless customer service known to man on this subject.

I'd suggest you don't try and do this yourself. You will never be able to maximize the various discounts you can get on this with this small of a mailing.

Many mail houses will batch the job with others to get you better discounts. Plus do you have a non-profit bulk mailing permit number that can be used? If not, shame on you because that get you fantastic deals over profit.

Look around your area for a mail house that is willing to work with you. They will be able to do all the work including address correction Zip+4 that you aren't going to be able to do.

There is a fee of course, but you mail if you find the right person this mailing will benefit from you not trying to do this.