Garrett Direct

Full Service Mailshop

Data Services

NCOALink
NCOALink helps list owners stay connected with mail recipients who have filed a Change of Address (COA) card with the United States Postal Service. This process keeps lists up-to-date and effective, providing less wasted postage, reduced return mail, reduced printing costs and increased delivery speed and response rates.

Address Resolution Services
ARS improves upon DPV technology by using third-party databases to correct addresses deemed undeliverable during the CASS encoding process. The service can append secondary data, such as apartment numbers, that may be missing or incorrect.

Suppression Services
For superior list targeting and higher response rates, Suppression Services are an ideal complement to the standard address correction process. Flagging addresses that match user-specified undesirable criteria – the DMA’s “Do Not Mail” list, deceased suppression and other categories – can help you reach the optimal audience with any mailing job. Garret Direct offers the following Suppression Services:

DMA Mail Preference Service - Identifies individuals who have registered with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Mail Preference Service (MPS) - to indicate that they do not wish to receive unsolicited mail.

Deceased - Identifies deceased individuals using a database dating back to 1987 and derived from Social Security Administration records and other proprietary sources.

 Prison

 Trailer Park

 Nursing Home

DSF2™
DSF2™uses carrier route data to append Walk Sequence numbers to an address list allowing more efficient delivery and Enhanced Carrier Route High Density or Saturation postal discounts.

Letter & Flat Mail

Garret Direct has the ability to process and produce all typical mailshop needs. Garrett Direct offers machine inserting, ink-jetting, lasering, folding, tabbing, gluing, as well as fulfillment services.

Inserting
Garrett Direct has multiple Bell & Howell inserters with up to 28 insert stations available. Standard size envelopes up to 6x9. With our collation features we can place up to the USPS maximum thickness in an envelope with one pass. Our jumbo9 x 12 inserter can insert up to 6 inserts in one pass. We also offer matching and in-line collate and fold inserting.

Ink-jetting
With our high-speed ink-jets we can produce up to 120,000 addresses per hr. With our friction and vacuum feeders, hard to handle pieces are not a problem. Garrett Direct can inkjet your products in black or colors. Red, Blue, and Green are standard; any PMS color is available upon special order request.

Folding
Garrett Direct has several multi-bank folders to meet your folding needs.

Tabbing and Gluing
Garrett Direct offers both in-line glueing and tabbing. Save money while decreasing processing times. With inline tabbing and gluing your mail pieces are kept to USPS standards to ensure good deliverability and less damage in the postal mail stream.

Laser Printing
We offer continuous and cut sheet laser printing in color or black. We offer full color or high-light color printing of letters, documents, newsletters, and other print projects up to 11'' x 17". We are a well established, multi-client service organization, with a depth of experience in electronic data printing and mailing. We maintain a number of laser printing systems to provide capacity and backup to assure your project is on time and correct.

Fulfillment
Garrett Direct offers warehousing, pick and pack, web based ordering and reporting for all your fulfillment needs.

DAL's (detached address label)

Garrett Direct is always trying to find new ways to provide direct-mail that works! DAL Postcards are designed and used to advertise or raise awareness of a company, service or cause. They make a great addition to your print advertising such as flat catalogs, flat letters and flat flyers. DAL Postcard printing and distribution is far more efficient and convenient when you use a reputable direct-mail and printing resource. DAL postcards allow a client who prefers solo mailing to land in a consumer’s mailbox at a much lower cost than that associated with other postcard venues. It is cost effective, image oriented, and sets the advertiser apart from others in the mailbox. The best part is that the DAL postcards can meet the needs of an advertiser with segment mailings which are zip code or carrier route specific–and all done with ad agency quality and design, but without ad agency cost!”

Benefits of using DAL cards as a marketing tool

  • Price – A DAL Postcard is much lower in cost than traditional direct mail
  • Exclusiveness – Your advertisement becomes a solo mailer, rather than one of many ads in a packet/envelope/magazine
  • High Impact, high-quality postcards – DAL Postcards can be printed in beautiful full-color, glossy coating makes your postcard stand out.
  • Target your marketing area  - specific zip codes or carrier routes closest to your location(s)
  • All inclusive – Design, printing and mailing for a single price; there are no “up charges” or hidden fees

Bound Printed Matter Parcels

Garrett Direct has the ability to process Bound Printed Matter Parcel mailings.  Bound Printed Matter is defined as advertising, promotional, directory, editorial material or any combination of such material. It must be securely bound by permanent fastenings such as staples, spiral binding, glue or stitching.  Our custom written proprietary, USPS approved software allows shipping of parcels containing Bound Printed Matter.

Certified Mail

Companies can save $1.20 in postage by electing to use Electronic Return Receipt to obtain a digital signature for their Certified Mail over the Green Card Signature. Garrett Direct offers solutions to automate the process of preparing your Certified Mail.  Both Regular Return Receipt (Green Cards) and Electronic Return Receipt (Digital Signature) services are available.

Certified Mail is a type of Special Service mail offered by the USPS which allows the sender proof of mailing as well as delivery confirmation. Certified Mail can also provides the sender with a copy of the recipient's signature, which is obtained at the time of delivery, by the Postal Service.

Each piece of certified mail is assigned a unique tracking number. This number serves as both an official record of mailing and receipt of the item by the Postal Service.

Certified Mail can be sent:

Non Return Receipt

Return Receipt (Green Card Signature – an additional $2.20)

Electronic Return Receipt (Digital Signature – an additional $1.00).

Polybagging/Shrinkwrapping

Garrett Direct has high volumne poly/shrinkwrap production machines. Poly wrapping offers a variety of opportunities to personalize the presentation of your mail piece over conventional envelopes. Poly wrap also allows the preparation of pieces of variable thickness in line.  Our high volume production machines, limits you only by Postal regulation.

Shrink wrapping insures that poly mail pieces meet USPS poly regulations This also makes a smoother looking mail piece, and we believe, a friendlier piece to the USPS automation mail processing equipment.  We also offer shrink wrapping capabilities for any project you may have.   

Drop Shipments

Drop shipping provides work share opportunities that reduces postage and improved total time-in-transit by allowing mailers to enter mailings directly into destination facilities. This also allows for a more controlled in home delivery schedule. 

With our plant location in central Ohio, we are within one day drive of nearly 70% of the U.S. population.  If your project is one tray, one skid, or many trucks, it may make sense to capture the saving by drop shipping.

Garrett Direct's logistics operation provides drop shipments across the U.S.

In Plant USPS Verification

Garrett Direct has a respected working relationship with postal management all across the country. Garrett Direct has an in house USPS plant verification system the mirrors the USPS Postal Facilities system. We have certified floor scales and a proprietary weight verification program we use to validate all mailings. All mail types can be processed and verified by local USPS employees here at our facility and then be drop shipped anywhere in the country.

Project Management

Garrett Direct focuses on helping businesses manage their direct mail projects. We ensure smooth and efficient operation of your direct mail projects.
Our company has a 20-year track record working “hands-on” managing both physical (raw) materials and information materials (paperwork or electronic documentation). Garrett Direct can save your company valuable time in researching the ideal production process for each step and ensuring that planned output levels, cost levels, and quality objectives are met to ensure successful project completion.
We are industry experts in the procurement of the ideal production facilities for your projects. With hundreds of print production companies from which to choose, we select the best in cost, quality and reliability for each component of your campaign.
Garrett Direct has developed very strong partnerships with a large group of the best in direct mail, print production and distribution companies in America. Based upon our accumulated volume with each of these companies we are able to provide excellent pricing that is competitive to or better than the marketplace.

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