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Old 03-07-2006, 11:10 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I just did a mail-out of 5,000 postcards and used an advertising company to handle everything. The only problem I have is that I have recieved 150 of these back in about 4 days due to the post office not being able to deliver them. Have any of you every had this problem and if so did the advertising company do anything about it?
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Old 03-07-2006, 11:15 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Why would the post office not be able to deliver them? Bad address people move?
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Old 03-07-2006, 11:16 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I think that you can contact whoever did your postcards and inform them of how many got sent back. They should give you some type of credit or reimbursement.
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It's all about the quality of the list you use. The company should have some guarantee on the list. Usually they will give a credit if you receive more back than they had specified.
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So far I've done all my own mailings and had very good luck.
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we just had this prob....even tho they all said "or current resident" we still got alot back....turns out the mail carriers themselves were just looking at the name...we don't get reimbursed for that. so solly cholly. irritating.
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Re: POST CARD MAIL-OUTS

After I took a closer look at the cards it seems that around 40 are from an apartment complex. They have the same address, but no apartment number. The remaining 110 are actually home addresses. It seems like we have had better luck when we mail them out ourselves than having a company do this. I just wanted certain demographics so that is why I chose the company.
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You can always provide your own list to the company. But since you left it to them, they should have some kind of guarantee.
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We did our own mailing too. Sent out about 400 of them and we keep getting people in with them. I would be pretty mad if I had paid for all those mailings and 150 got sent back to me already, thats like money down the drain. I would call them and ask them about getting reimbursed for those since they were the ones that provided you with the mailing list. See what they say...
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im getting ready to do a postcard mailer and the company i am using said all addresses will be up to date and verified! i better check the fine print!
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