Jun 04 2008
Basic Postal Requirements for Designing Mail Pieces…
- All Standard mailings must have at least 200 addressed pieces or collectively weigh 50 pounds.
- All First Class mailings must have at least 250 pieces.
- Full color is good to have on a mail piece but you must be aware of what is behind the recipient address. Light and pastel colors tend to work the best. If you have a hard time reading it, so will the Postal machines. It needs to be high contrast between the background and text.
- You cannot use Textured, Fluorescence, Phosphorescence, Dark Fiber material for automation rates.
- Mail piece must fall within one of the categories in Figure 1 below. If not, it may not be automated or needs to be sent another way.
- To be considered for automation rates, it must fall within the aspect ratio (length divided by height must equal between 1.3 and 2.5).
- The recipient address needs to be parallel to the longer dimension of the mail piece or it will fall under non automation rates.
Figure 1
