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I'm looking for information on nonprofit mailing.  Can this be used for mailing individual items or does it have to be used for mass mailings?  Does anyone have experience with using it in your congregation?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

This is true that the minimum is 200 pieces.  We are sending our newsletter to about 170 households, so to meet the minimum requirement of 200 I send 30 copies to the church.  There is a box to check when inside the USPS Business Customer Gateway portal for the non profit rate.  If you do not check it, you will pay the regular rate.

Earl,

More information is available at this USPS weblink: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Nonprofit-Mail

Note especially the following:

Nonprofit Mail is printed material eligible to be mailed as USPS Marketing Mail® by organizations authorized by the Postal Service™ to mail at significantly reduced nonprofit postage rates. Nonprofit mail cannot contain matter that is required to be mailed as First-Class Mail®. For example, handwritten or typewritten matter, or bills and statements of account, are required to be mailed as First-Class Mail.

It would appear that Nonprofit Mail is primarily intended for large non-profits to discount postage when sending marketing mail to donors at a discount, so it is not going to be helpful for the small church. It cannot be used for mailing individual pieces, such as financial statements or correspondence, to church members, as noted in the underlined section above.

If you have a newsletter mailing list of 200 or more households, then it may be advantageous to get a bulk mailing permit for newsletters and other all church mailings, as many of our churches do.