Our Services
Mailing Services
When it comes to planning your direct marketing campaigns and getting them to your target audience’s mailbox, Polaris Direct is ready to guide you with efficiency and expertise.
Pre-Production Planning
No details are left undone.
Our experienced sales team works closely with internal teams and our clients to develop successful marketing campaigns. Through creative consultation, we offer print and manufacturing format ideation, as well as mock-ups with paper stock options. This process ensures postal regulation compliance and maximum postal discounts, including the USPS special promotions for mailers.
Data Processing
Adhering to the highest standards of data security.
Polaris Direct utilizes the latest Quadient (GMC) and BCC software for accurate, high-speed processing of customer files. We accept data in many media formats, as well as through our secure FTP site. Our data processing expertise includes:
- Mailing list hygiene
- NCOA processing
- CASS certification and presorting
- Letter text setup with variable data programming
- Custom programming/Online proofing
Lettershop
Highly skilled technicians, meticulous quality assurance, and on-budget results.
Our lettershop arsenal includes high-speed automated technology, with a near-line manufacturing approach to meeting mail-dates for multiple campaigns.
For more details, request our equipment list.
Mailing Services
Creating efficiencies and synergies via partnerships and technology, to reduce mailing costs.
We offer both Drop Ship delivery verification and IMb mail piece tracking, postal reconciliation, mail tracking for in-home delivery dates, and individual mail pieces, to achieve the most effective delivery at the lowest cost.
COMMINGLING
The commingling process involves combining mail from a variety of customers and presorting it together to achieve the optimal postage discount. Through our partnership with Firebird Presort, we offer commingling services on a daily basis to give the benefit of lower postage rates.
DROP SHIPMENT
Direct marketers can also reduce their mailing costs by drop shipping—or preparing mailings to bypass certain processing steps and expedite the journey through the USPS system. With drop shipping, Polaris Direct coordinates the delivery of mailings to a postal facility closer to their end destination. The further “downstream” mail is entered into the USPS system, the greater the postage discount.
CARRIER ROUTE
This process presorts the mail down to the saturation level, with 90% or more of the active residential addresses qualifying at the carrier route level. We work with our clients to see if their mail is eligible for this deep discount.