Presort & Commingling Services — PA, NJ, DE

Presorting groups mail by ZIP code and delivery point before it reaches the postal system, which qualifies it for reduced postage rates; commingling combines mail from multiple clients into the same presorted streams to reach even deeper discount tiers. PMC runs both at 36,000 pieces per hour per machine, using Pure Vision software along with RAF handwritten-mail reading and national address validation to keep pieces correctly sorted and deliverable.

The advantage most competitors can't offer is on-site USPS acceptance: PMC accepts and documents mail for the postal service directly at its Blackwood, NJ facility, rather than trucking a job to a separate acceptance point. Combined with presort and commingling, that reduces postal handling by 80% compared with mail that enters the system unsorted, and same-day service is available where a job qualifies.

PMC's presort and commingling service covers PA, NJ, and DE, with daily plant loads moving finished mail into the postal network. For statement mailers, direct mail campaigns, and any high-volume mail program originating from PMC's print or lettershop floor, presort and commingling is the step that turns a finished mail piece into a lower-cost, trackable one — without a separate consolidator in the chain.

Pure Vision software handles the address-matching and sort logic behind that 36,000-piece-per-hour rate, while RAF handwritten-mail reading lets handwritten addresses qualify for automated sorting instead of falling out to manual handling, and national address validation catches bad or outdated addresses before a piece ever ships. Because commingling combines volume from multiple clients into shared sort streams, a mailer that couldn't reach the deepest discount tiers on its own volume alone can still qualify for them through PMC's operation, one of the more direct ways presort and commingling turns into real postage savings, and it's the reason the service is priced as a rate reduction rather than a flat processing fee.