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https://lob.com https://lob.com probably has what you're looking for. I've used their service for awhile and it's amazing.

mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah I use Lob for a lot of my "write up a letter, print, and mail it with a written record of what I sent and when" correspondence. They make it super easy to send letters about as easily as an e-mail. I am very clearly not the intended customer and appreciate that they're willing to take my business anyway. I also used them for holiday cards two years back, which was * Fantastic -- super straightforward to write up a small script to call their API and send 1 card to each person on our holiday-card list * A little weird -- sending 70 holiday cards involved instructing their API to download an identical .pdf holiday card template from a remote server where I hosted that one file 70 times * Cheap -- they printed and mailed glossy postcards at a very affordable price * Ever so slightly disappointing -- we got to see maybe 10 of the actual mailed postcards from this run (on family's fridges, in the test copy we sent ourselves, and in the 3 or 4 postcards that we thought were addressed correctly but which were returned to us with an invalid address) and every single one of them had the same printing defect, what looked like a big scuff across a photo. Not sure what the deal was or why it was so consistent on every image. We didn't write in to support because I am pretty sure we are not the target audience. Great service, A+, huge time saver vs. manually writing so many addresses, still a big fan.
- dmlittle 7y ago
  Glad you like our service! In the future don't hesitate to reach out to us through support (I work at Lob)! The scuff marks that you saw in your mail are most likely due to belt rollers in the USPS sorting facilities. We've tried a lot of different combinations of paper, ink and protective coatings to minimize the chance of mail pieces being damaged but we haven't found a combination that 100% removes the chance of damage during the USPS sorting process. Throughout the mailing lifecycle a piece of mail will go through several sorting facilities. Each facility has similar sorting machines but they might be in different conditions. There's a chance that a certain sorting facility has machines with more worn out rollers that cause higher damage rates than others. This would manifest in mail pieces going to a certain zip code experiencing higher damage rates. For mail that is returned to the sender it has to go through even more sorting facilities (both when being delivered and back) that causes an even higher damage rate. Here's a video showing you the type of sorting machines each mail piece goes through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7QOK1bd3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7QOK1bd3U

mherdeg 7y ago

Yeah I use Lob for a lot of my "write up a letter, print, and mail it with a written record of what I sent and when" correspondence. They make it super easy to send letters about as easily as an e-mail. I am very clearly not the intended customer and appreciate that they're willing to take my business anyway. I also used them for holiday cards two years back, which was * Fantastic -- super straightforward to write up a small script to call their API and send 1 card to each person on our holiday-card list * A little weird -- sending 70 holiday cards involved instructing their API to download an identical .pdf holiday card template from a remote server where I hosted that one file 70 times * Cheap -- they printed and mailed glossy postcards at a very affordable price * Ever so slightly disappointing -- we got to see maybe 10 of the actual mailed postcards from this run (on family's fridges, in the test copy we sent ourselves, and in the 3 or 4 postcards that we thought were addressed correctly but which were returned to us with an invalid address) and every single one of them had the same printing defect, what looked like a big scuff across a photo. Not sure what the deal was or why it was so consistent on every image. We didn't write in to support because I am pretty sure we are not the target audience. Great service, A+, huge time saver vs. manually writing so many addresses, still a big fan.

dmlittle 7y ago
Glad you like our service! In the future don't hesitate to reach out to us through support (I work at Lob)! The scuff marks that you saw in your mail are most likely due to belt rollers in the USPS sorting facilities. We've tried a lot of different combinations of paper, ink and protective coatings to minimize the chance of mail pieces being damaged but we haven't found a combination that 100% removes the chance of damage during the USPS sorting process. Throughout the mailing lifecycle a piece of mail will go through several sorting facilities. Each facility has similar sorting machines but they might be in different conditions. There's a chance that a certain sorting facility has machines with more worn out rollers that cause higher damage rates than others. This would manifest in mail pieces going to a certain zip code experiencing higher damage rates. For mail that is returned to the sender it has to go through even more sorting facilities (both when being delivered and back) that causes an even higher damage rate. Here's a video showing you the type of sorting machines each mail piece goes through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7QOK1bd3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7QOK1bd3U