Universal Mailing In-House Capabilities

Postal Presorting

Enables you to receive the best postal rate within first class, standard mail or periodical mail breakdowns.

Postal Processing

Append Zipcodes
Append Zip Plus 4
Append Delivery Point
Address Standardization
NCOA

Additional Processing

Provide Upper/Lower casing
Append Salutations e.g. Dear Mr. Jones, Dear Dr. and Mrs. Jones etc.
Provide special formatting (e.g. Donation requests bases on history, benefits calculations, etc.)
Apartment Append
Deceased Screening

Specialized Applications

Microsoft Access Database Applications
Borland Delphi Applications
Microsoft Visual Basic Applications
Website data collection

Merge/Purge/Duplicate Elimination

Reformat and combine any number of lists
Build required match code (Individual, One per household, One per company, etc.)
Remove duplicates by list priority

Privacy and Data Security

An essential and universal element of all our data management processes

In-House Printing

Offset Printing
Laser Printing (Sheet & Continuous Roll)
Ink Jet Printing—Letter Quality
Ink Jet Printing—Address Quality

Material Warehousing

A broad array of inventories maintained

Premiums, Flyers, Inserts, Envelopes, Periodicals, Booklets

UMS Highlighted Services

On-site Postal Center

The mailing center at Universal is a designated branch of the United States Postal Service. This allows for the presence of a full-time postal clerk at our facility. The dedicated phone line and on-site postal personnel provide Universal with the flexibility to call extra staff for large or quick-turnaround jobs, as needed. This value-added benefit ensures that your important mailing doesn’t have to wait. In addition, all the paperwork is processed automatically, right in our dedicated postal center.
Plant-Verified Drop Shipments

Much of what you mail makes a number of postal stops along the way in order to go through various processes, such as routing and sorting. Plant-verified drop shipments allow you to bypass some of those processes because your entire mailing is loaded onto one or more trucks to be transported directly to the appropriate postal centers. Not only does this allow you to reap the maximum postal discounts available, it also saves time, meaning your mailing reaches its audience much faster than if it has to go through the standard processes.
Planet Code Destination Confirm

Think you have to rely upon Federal Express or another overnight courier service in order to track the whereabouts of your mailing or package? Not if you mail with Universal. Universal Mailing Service is among the select group of only 75 U.S. mailing service companies certified by the U.S. Post Office to track outbound mail to its destination. No matter what the size of the mailing, with Universal, in addition to knowing where it’s going, you can also know when it gets there.
Alternate Mailing System Agreement

When you have a very large mailing to get out, postal regulations dictate every pallet has to be weighed in order to be verified. Not at Universal. Because of our close working relationship with the U.S. Postal Service, an entire truckload of mail can be verified based upon the volume represented by a singlepallet! That’s the competitive advantage our Alternate Mailing System Agreement brings you. The AMS Agreement is the mailing service industry equivalent to an ISO-9000 certification.
Intelligent Mail® Barcode

UMS has invested in technology, which puts Intelligent Mail barcodes,( a product of the United States Postal Service ), on every mail piece, tray or pallet. This enables in-house tracking throughout the production process. Once it leaves our site, mail is scanned to confirm its acceptance by the Postal Service. Subsequent real-time scanning provides an electronic trail throughout the processing cycle until it reaches end delivery. UMS can trace where the mail is and predict when it is expected to be delivered. And with our unique web-based PlanetTrack™ system, customers can now logon and see detailed mail tracking.
PlanetTrack™

Designed by our in-house Computer Services experts, PlanetTrack allows customers to log in any time, 24/7 to access detailed information about all their mailing jobs. PlanetTrack uses the Post Office’s PLANET Code® technology to track mail every step of the way, as it moves through postal sorting equipment, ending with delivery to the intended recipients. With PlanetTrack, there is no waiting for mail status, you can simply log in and view real-time tracking results.
In-House Printing

As an added customer service, Universal Mailing has established a supplemental printing operation in-house. It has become a valuable service adjunct, particularly when we our client is faced with tight deadlines. When dealing with complex mailings (several items inserted into one information envelope) we can save our customers valuable time by printing simple, 2-color jobs (envelopes, customized letters and letterhead) when inevitable shortages occur. The logistics of contacting the client printer, waiting to find a production slot, etc. are eliminated with this unique Universal Mailing service adjunct.

Universal Mailing In-House Capabilities

Postal Presorting

Postal Processing

Additional Processing

Specialized Applications

Merge/Purge/Duplicate Elimination

Privacy and Data Security

In-House Printing

Material Warehousing

On-site Postal Center

Plant-Verified Drop Shipments

Planet Code Destination Confirm

Alternate Mailing System Agreement

Intelligent Mail® Barcode

PlanetTrack™

In-House Printing

Universal Mailing Services