Promotions & Incentives
Integrating Mail with Technology & New Print Techniques
Make the most of how your customers interact and engage with mail. USPS® offers mailing promotions and incentives to help you promote best practices for integrating mail with new technology and print techniques.
Initial Enrollment
To take advantage of USPS mailing promotions and incentives, and learn about other business discounts, enroll your business at the Business Customer Gateway.
How to Enroll in Mailing Promotions2021 Promotions & Incentives
Building on the success of past promotions, USPS has developed the 2021 Promotions Calendar for marketers, printers, and mailers. With these promotions, USPS expects to increase overall mail value and help businesses increase their return on investment in mail. Each promotion period ranges between 3 to 6 months.
2021 Tactile, Sensory, & Interactive Mailpiece Engagement Promotion
Leveraging the physical aspects of mail as well as the advances in print technology, marketers can enhance how their customers interact and engage with mail to drive response rates. During this promotion, eligible mailers who incorporate a multi-sensory experience such as special visual effects, sound, scent, texture/tactile treatments, or even taste in their mailpiece may receive a postage discount.
Learn More2021 Emerging & Advanced Technology Promotion
To ensure that direct mail continues to be a relevant part of the marketing mix, the Emerging & Advanced Technology Promotion encourages mailers to incorporate technologies such as “Enhanced” Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality, Near Field Communication (NFC), Video in Print (ViP) featuring Shoppable Video, Integration with Voice Assistants, and Digital to Direct Mail technology application in their mail campaigns.
Learn More2021 Earned Value Promotion
To keep First-Class Mail® relevant and slow its decline, the Earned Value Promotion offers earned credits to eligible businesses who use Business Reply Mail® (BRM), Courtesy Reply Mail™ (CRM), and Share Mail® pieces. Mailers who register their Mailer ID (MID), permit(s), and use eligible Intelligent Mail® barcodes (IMbs) on their BRM, CRM, and Share Mail pieces may receive a postage credit for each mailpiece that is placed in the mailstream by the recipient and scanned during the promotion period.
Earned Value Credits
All Participants
Receive $0.02 credit for each BRM, CRM, and/or Share Mail piece.
At the end of the promotion, the BRM, CRM, and Share Mail pieces will be totaled, and the earned postage credit will be applied to the selected permit accounts.
Once the participant accepts their credits in Business Customer Gateway (BCG), the earned credits will be applied to the enrolled permit(s). The participant can apply the earned credits to future mailings of First-Class Mail presort and automation cards, letters and flats, and USPS Marketing Mail letters and flats.
Learn More2021 Personalized Color Transpromo Promotion
The Personalized Color Transpromo Promotion incorporates marketing messages that use color, dynamic variable print, and personalization. By using color messaging in bills and statements, business mailers can enhance the value of First-Class Mail and foster a better connection and response from customers.
Learn More2021 Mobile Shopping Promotion
The Mobile Shopping Promotion encourages mailers to send mailings that highlight the connection between the mailpiece and the digital shopping experience. It is designed to enable customers to conveniently go from the mailpiece, directly to a mobile-optimized online shopping experience using platforms, such as Quick Response (QR) Codes, Snap Tags, Watermarks, and other advanced technologies.
Learn More2021 Informed Delivery Promotion
The Informed Delivery® Promotion (ID Promotion) offers a 2% discount on postage for business mailers who launch Informed Delivery interactive campaigns with their physical mailpieces to reach and engage customers.
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