Archive for the ‘Maponics Online Store’ Category
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
This month the US Postal Service announced and began a massive reorganization of its mail delivery system. Once complete, as many as 85 thousand carrier routes (the local areas covered by individual letter carriers each day) will be affected. Ev...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
What Exactly is a ZIP Code….or a Carrier Route?
The ZIP Code and carrier route coding system was specifically developed by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in order to make mail delivery more efficient. This means that what the average per...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
“Now you have an easy-to-use, automatic system to make sure your maps and reports are never out of date again - and if you act by 10/27 you will even save money!”
Millions of dollars are wasted each year because of decisions based on old ...
[read more] Tags: carrier route map, carrier route maps, npanxx data, zip code maps 50 states
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Over 1,100 ZIP Codes are added, dropped or significantly changed every quarter by the U.S. Postal Service. Yet tens of thousands of business people rely on ZIP Code Maps that are six months old or older to plan critical marketing, sales and logisti...
[read more] Tags: ZIP Code map, ZIP Code map CD, ZIP Code map sale, zip code maps
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
What is Environmailism? It’s is a new direct mail-based campaign launched by the USPS to encourage businesses to make more environmentally aware mailing choices. Through a Green Mail Kit sent out to direct mailers, and a follow on Environmailis...
[read more] Tags: carrier route mapping, carrier route maps, eco-friendly mailing, environmailism, environmental direct mail
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Can I get a map with the carrier routes in my school district?
Can I get a map with the median income of residents by ZIP Code?
Can I get a map with all my store locations?
Can I really get maps like that?
Yes! We are the rare company that allo...
[read more] Tags: Custom Map, Custom Map Sample Gallery, custom mapping, Custom Maps, customization, demographic, map coverage, map features
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Have you ever had one of those “Wow, if I had only known this existed” moments? Well unless you’re a direct mail veteran, a visit to the USPS’s Business 101 section will leave you feeling that way. There you’ll find a ton of handy tips, r...
[read more] Tags: direct mail, direct mail tools, mailing tools, usps tools
Posted in Carrier Route Maps, Cool Ideas and Sites, Maponics Online Store, ZIP Code Maps | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I admit it.
We’ve cut corners on client mapping projects.
Left off a compass rose here. Skipped a label optimization there. Little things that any cartographer worth her salt would know from Cartography 101 shouldn’t be dropped.
[A gre...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
We periodically analyze the rate at which carrier routes change, so that we can provide accurate guidance on how frequently our customers should update their maps and reports. Each time we run these analyses on our carrier route map data (see a past...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Did you know that the Custom Maps offered by the Maponics Online Store are more customizable than any others you can order online? Learn what is unique about these maps - listen to this recent interview of Maponics’ Darrin Clement by PRWeb!
Wa...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Ever need a quick sense of what state a ZIP Code is in? 5-digit ZIP Code maps of the entire US are impossible to work with, but Maponics has created - for free distribution - some cool 1-digit and 2-digit ZIP Code maps in convenient PDF format. Cli...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
If you mail by carrier route often, then you know that carrier routes are always changing. But did you know that they change by 25% each quarter?!? We’ve verified this through our own testing as well as conversations with the USPS.
We have a ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Gas prices are high, postage rates are increasing again, email and web marketing continue to grow… in other words, it’s a perfect time to re-examine how you can increase direct mail response while getting the lowest postage rates. Ideally, y...
[read more] Tags: carrier route maps, direct mail, saturation mailing
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Wondering where the demographic maps on our online store went? Don’t worry, they are still there! We’ve just reorganized the site a bit to help new visitors locate things more intuitively. You can now find:
ZIP Code demographic maps in ...
[read more] Tags: carrier route maps, census tract maps, demographic maps, zip code maps
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
We all get them. Those mailers from pizza shops, muffler places, car dealers, coffee shops. Inviting us to stop in and buy. When done well, they can make us feel excited to try something new.
Many businesses do a great job creating this desire - b...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Last week we added the option to purchase quarterly subscriptions for all of our ZIP Code map products on our online store.
Our cartographers estimate that ZIP Codes change 3% a quarter. For some, this has relatively little impact. But for others,...
[read more] Tags: zip code maps
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