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It's not misleading at all, that is exactly what a USPS postcard stamp costs.

It's not fair to compare this to EDDM. The whole point of my site is so you dont have to mail to "every single door".

For example, I have 2 landscapers using my service and they target based on home value because they know most of their clients live in houses > $xxx. They also exclude renters because nearly all of their clients are homeowners. If they were using EDDM they might pay a bit less per postcard, but they would be sending to houses that will never signup for their service, so the actual CPA is higher

You mention "printing adds a bit of cost" but if you look around you will see that it adds quite a bit of cost. It depends on how many pieces you are sending but it could be .25 cents or .40 cents for 500-1000, or more -- but you have to send to an entire route, where you can send to a single house with my service.

Also, with EDDM you either have to batch your mailings per route, and deliver them to specific locations for USPS distribution, or pay extra for a print house to do that for you


There are several occupant APIs that let you do this


Yes, I use an API to print and mail. There are a few of them available


Yes, exactly! I am hoping some restaurants will signup because they can really control their marketing spend by only mailing to people they deliver to. Although with Uber Eats does anybody order direct anymore?


I'd love that, shoot me a message from the contact page and let's get in touch


I use MelissaData and a few other similar APIs that are available


MelissaData has quite a hefty API set up and minimum commit - how did you get them to give you API access to the direct mail leadgen API?


I paid a hefty setup fee


Sorry about that, I had an issue with Cloudflare and had to purge the cache, does it work for you now?


Still happening here.


Are you outside North America and possibly getting a captcha from CF? Looking into it now, sorry


Neither.


it's back for me! thanks!


No


Thank you. It's built using Laravel and I am using a Javascript canvas editor for the designer


Are you using anything like Mapbox?


No, just Google Maps


I just relaunched PostalAgent which lets you send postcards online by circling neighborhoods on a google map and then refining using demographic filters

My free plan offers an all in price which includes design, print and mail to your customers door for less than any competitor

https://PostalAgent.com


This is cool, what are you using for the post card design part? I have a mail related idea am working on except this is for registered mail.


You can decode VIN data pretty easily, but the APIs that match a Plate to a VIN charge a fee for each lookup


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