Service that will print & mail a document locally, anywhere in the world
October 9, 2022 2:43 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for a service where i could upload a document, and it will get printed out and mailed in the country of the recipient. This would insure a relatively fast and inexpensive local delivery of that document.

I want to use it to post physical gift cards to our customers. Usually people who buy gift cards do so because they're not sure what the recipient wants, or, more often, they're too late for an order to arrive in time a birthday etc...
However, digital gift cards don't have that satisfying part of being able to give something out.
We want to offer our gift cards as a physical card, sent through snail mail, to any location.
However, if we send regular post from our office in the Netherlands, it can take weeks before it gets delivered to let's say the USA or Australia.
I want to find a service where i could upload a custom PDF of the gift card, and it will get printed somewhere local to the recipient, and posted locally.

I've found a few services and tried them out by placing a test order, but never actually received the test... so, reliability is also important. Our customers are everywhere in the world, but most often in western countries, where the local post is pretty efficient and trusted.

Have you worked with such services? Ideally, it would only cost a few $ to send 1 A4 page locally, otherwise the margins just won't work for a lower-amount gift card.
posted by PardonMyFrench to Computers & Internet (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
This is called "hybrid mail" or "print to mail" and I suspect you'd have to find local vendors in each country.
posted by Small Dollar at 7:12 AM on October 9, 2022 [1 favorite]


TouchNote sorta does that. They’ll send cards to recipients wherever, generally printing and posting the card from somewhere close to where the card is going. Has worked well from the US to EU for me.
posted by DaveP at 12:17 PM on October 9, 2022 [2 favorites]


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