Special Report
EDDM Secrets Revealed
How to mail your takeout menus & Jumbo postcards to every home & business in your area for only 26¢ postage free permit, no contracts, no mailing lists.
The Print Industry's Best-Kept Secret — Now Yours for Free
The following information will save you thousands of dollars over our competitors' inflated EDDM prices. We at Takeout Printing care about our industry — the restaurant industry — which is why we pass the savings and proper information on to you, the restaurant owner. We've been working hard for the restaurant industry for over 35 years.
Get a Custom EDDM Takeout Menu Mailer Printed
Your 1-of-a-kind takeout menu mailer should be custom designed, printed on high-quality glossy paper, and folded as per USPS EDDM standards — with high-quality pictures and food photos. Your free Every Door Direct mailing permit should be printed and placed in the proper place on your menu to be eligible for the postage discount of less than 25¢ per menu. Remember: you only have one chance to make a good first impression on local homes, businesses, and new movers. Do not cut corners on your takeout menu. Studies have shown that if a new customer sees you've cut corners on your takeout menus, they wonder if you're cutting corners in your kitchen or with your food.
Secret Tip #1: Never use templates for your menus. Templates are pre-designed shells that any restaurant can use — even your competition. Takeout Printing provides 1-of-a-kind custom takeout menu design built around your food, your specific restaurant, and your passion.
Get Your FREE EDDM Mailing Permit (a $370 Value)
A bulk rate mailing permit would cost you an Annual Mailing Fee of ($370): This is a mandatory fee required per 12-month period for a commercial mailing for bulk rate Mail.— a Now with Every Door Direct Mail Retail from the USPS, it is totally FREE. No need for mailing lists, mailing labels, addressing, or tabbing services. As long as your final folded takeout menu mailer is the right size and weight, you qualify for the 26¢ postage per menu mailer. When you drop off your menus at your local post office, your cover sheet will tell the post office which carrier routes to mail to. Within 1 to 2 business days, every home, business, and new mover in that carrier route will get your menu in their mailbox.
Secret Tip #2: Visit usps.com/eddm to sign up your restaurant for a Customer Registration ID (CRID number). You can also receive FREE one-on-one help from a well-trained business consultant courtesy of the United States Postal Service — just ask for a Business Solution Specialist (BSS) or Business Development Specialist (BDS) at your local post office.
Use the FREE USPS Carrier Route Web Tool
Our competitors will have you believe they've developed a state-of-the-art web tool for the EDDM program — which is why they charge thousands of extra dollars for this FREE program. The same simple point-and-click search tool is absolutely FREE from the USPS website. Once you get your free CRID number, just log in and click away. You can search any neighborhood in the United States, right down to local carrier routes, and see how many homes and businesses are in a specific radius from your restaurant. A carrier route is the area of homes and businesses that an individual postal carrier delivers to in a day. The average zip code has multiple carrier routes. A carrier route can have as few as 500 addresses in rural areas and up to a few thousand in large cities like New York, Boston, and Los Angeles.
Secret Tip #3: You control your own mail drops and your cash flow — and you can cancel at any time. With this program you can mail your 80lb 11×17 glossy takeout menu to 1 carrier route or as many as you like: daily, weekly, or monthly. You only pay less than 25¢ postage per menu on the day you drop off your mailers.
Prepare & Drop Off Your Mailers — Save Thousands
When you receive your shipment of custom 1-of-a-kind menu mailers from TakeoutPrinting.com, your EDDM permit will already be printed on your piece and ready to mail. Buy a small $15 postal scale from a local office supply store. Have your staff count out the first 100 menu mailers, weigh them, then match that weight for each subsequent stack. In no time you'll have 30 stacks of 100 menus each. Rubber band each stack with the proper cover sheet and drop off your menus at your local post office. This is where the real savings come into play — you already pay your staff, so why pay a company thousands of extra dollars to prepare your stacks when you can do it yourself and cut out the middleman?
Secret Tip #4: During down time at the restaurant instead of employees sitting around, have your staff prepare all of your EDDM menu mailers for future drop-offs. They can rubber band them in proper stacks and put them neatly back in the boxes. The more business for the restaurant means more tips for the staff.
Ready to Start Mailing Your Menus?
Call or text us 10am–10pm EST, 7 days a week. We'll walk you through the entire EDDM process for free.