What is bound printer matter?

Bound printed matter is a class of USPS mail that allows mailers to send heavy booklets and catalogs at lower prices. This applies to both flats and packages.

How can my mailing qualify?

The basic requirements are below, but a mock up may be necessary to review to ensure it meets the requirements, as some are fairly vague

Weigh no more than 15 pounds. Pieces might be subject to other minimum weights or dimensions based on the standards for specific prices.

Consist of advertising, promotional, directory, or editorial material (or any combination of such material).
Be securely bound by permanent fastenings such as staples, spiral binding, glue, or stitching. Loose-leaf binders and similar fastenings are not considered permanent.
Consist of sheets of which at least 90% are imprinted by any process other than handwriting or typewriting with words, letters, characters, figures, or images (or any combination of them).
Not have the nature of personal correspondence.
Consist of mailable matter that is neither mailed or required to be mailed as First-Class Mail nor entered as Periodicals
Not be stationery, such as pads of blank printed forms.

There may also be some additional inserts that are not booklets or catalogs, but these will need to be approved as well.

Bound printed matter is a great mailing class to cost effectively ship and mail heavy booklets and catalogs.

For more information contact us, as the rules are fairly complicated