By the USMail.ai team, more than 50 years of combined expertise in printing and mailing
You can skip the printing, folding, stuffing, postage and drop-off and still get a real paper letter out. USMail.ai is an AI print-to-mail platform: you send files you already have, review the proof and full price, and approve, and we print, envelope and hand each piece to USPS.
Mailing a letter yourself means printing it, folding it, stuffing and sealing the envelope, buying the right postage and dropping it off. For a Certified letter, add filling out the forms and waiting at the counter. For one letter, that can take the better part of a morning; for a stack of notices, it can take a day. Any time mentioned here is a rough picture, not a measurement of your office.
USPS carries the mail, but USPS doesn't prepare it. Someone still has to do the printing and stuffing, and that's the part USMail.ai takes over.
You upload. You approve. We produce. You upload the letter as a PDF, Word file or image and add your recipients. You check the proof and the full price on screen and approve. We print, fold, stuff, apply postage and hand each piece to USPS on your mail date. The steps are on Upload. Review. We mail it.. From our own production floor: we print, envelope and hand each piece to USPS, and you see the proof and the full price before you approve.
Every address comes from you, and we check every address before mailing. That check doesn't promise when or whether a letter gets where it's going.
Catalogs sell print products by item: you pick a product and check out. With USMail.ai you send the files you already have, a person approves the proof, and we hand the pieces to USPS. If you're weighing other online services by name, our guide USMail.ai vs Lob vs PostGrid vs Click2Mail walks through them.
A walk-in shop is local, and you may print there and still mail the stack yourself. There's no walk-in counter at USMail.ai. You send one job from your desk, and printing, postage and the USPS handoff all happen inside it.
At the post office you bring a printed letter, fill out the Certified forms and wait in line. With USMail.ai you upload the document and add Certified Mail to the job before you approve. Certified Mail is $1.15 plus the current USPS Certified Mail fee, which USPS publishes in Notice 123, and it includes USPS tracking. We don't offer paper Return Receipt yet. USMail.ai is not USPS; we prepare the letter and hand it to USPS.
A catalog fits when you want a menu of print products. A local shop fits when you need special finishing or an in-person handoff. The post office fits when the piece is already printed, stamped and in your hand. USMail.ai fits when you have the file and want it printed and mailed without leaving your desk, whether that's one letter or a whole list.
It makes sense when you have one letter and no printer at home, a stack of notices from the office and no mailroom, or a letter that needs Certified Mail on the record. If you mostly mail single letters, see Your PDF in. Real mail out. for the simplest path. Postcards are supported too.
Letters starting at $1.15, postage included. For a one-page, single-sided, black-and-white First-Class letter. Postage is always part of the price, so you don't buy stamps or guess at rates. You see the full price before you approve. If plans change, you can unapprove an approved job before its mail date, and unapproving puts the money back on your meter, not your card. A meter balance is optional, and you can pay per mailing.
By default, letters you approve before 10 p.m. CT are handed to USPS the next business day. USPS delivery times vary. If your letter is tied to a date, approve early enough to leave room.
Catalogs sell print products by item. You send USMail.ai the files you already have, a person approves the proof, and we hand the pieces to USPS.
A shop is local, and you may print there and still mail it yourself. With USMail.ai you send one job, and we print, apply postage and hand it to USPS.
No. USMail.ai prepares the mail and hands it to USPS. USMail.ai is not USPS.
Letters starting at $1.15, postage included. For a one-page, single-sided, black-and-white First-Class letter. You see the full price before you approve.
By default, letters you approve before 10 p.m. CT are handed to USPS the next business day (Monday to Friday). USPS delivery times vary. USPS handles delivery from there. There are no contracts, subscriptions or setup fees.
