Avoid the Time Crunch

Step 6 — USPS receives and delivers your mail. Time: three days (if you do bulk mail center entry) to three weeks. Tip: Try to mail at the nearest post office that accepts bulk mail.

Total time for the complete list-to-mailbox process: seven to 14 weeks. Can you do it faster? Yes. In the case study I noted earlier, we confined our list selections to those most likely to be approved; we used a data processing house willing to work nights and weekends; and we started all processes immediately. It went very quickly, but we weren’t in-home in the cataloger’s hoped-for 10 days.