Government Print & Mail · All 50 States · Est. 1989

Government-Grade Print & Mail. One Vendor.

One vendor for printing, mailing, and data, with procurement-ready quotes, audit documentation, and 20-40% postage savings through USPS presort.

  • Florida STC 80141800 Vendor
  • Veteran-Owned (VBE)
  • SOC 2 Type 2 + HIPAA
  • USPS BMEU Entry
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Mail Processing Associates prints and mails tax bills, utility bills, public notices, election mail, and citizen communications for government entities in all 50 states from one veteran-owned Lakeland, Florida facility. Florida public buyers can purchase under State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC; agencies everywhere else receive the same line-item quoting, the same USPS Business Mail Entry Unit entry, and the same audit-ready documentation, quoted commercially. Postage is billed at the actual USPS amount and never marked up, presort typically saves 20-40% against single-piece rates, and citizen data is handled under SOC 2 Type 2 audited controls with HIPAA obligations applied wherever benefits or health data appears. One vendor, one purchase order, one documentation package at the end.

Alec Boye, President, Mail Processing Associates

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We Understand Government

Procurement Shouldn't Be the Hardest Part of Your Job

You need vendors who understand government timelines, documentation requirements, and the reality of public sector budgets. We've worked with government agencies for decades.

Compliance Documentation

Detailed invoices and audit-ready records for procurement compliance.

Secure Data Handling

Citizen data protected with strict security protocols. View controls

Government Timelines

We understand statutory deadlines and fiscal year constraints.

The State Contract

Florida State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC

If you buy print and mail for a Florida public entity, this is the part of the page your purchasing office will care about most. MPA is an awarded contractor under Florida State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC, Service Category 1: Mail Processing. The contract gives eligible public buyers a pre-negotiated path to government printing services and mail processing, so routine document programs do not require building a procurement from scratch.

Not buying for a Florida entity? The contract still tells you the part that matters: a state government audited MPA's pricing, capacity, and performance, and put us on contract. Agencies in the other 49 states get the same production discipline, the same documentation, and a quote written with contract-grade clarity.

What Holding the Contract Means for You

A state term contract is exactly what it sounds like: terms and a rate structure negotiated in advance at the state level. When our team prepares a quote under the contract, the quote is built against that structure and carries the contract number on its header, so your procurement file shows exactly what authority the purchase was made under.

Pre-negotiated contract rates - printing is quoted per impression for color or black-and-white work under the contract's rate structure, not ad hoc pricing

Paper billed at cost - specialty stocks and envelopes pass through at cost under the contract, with no markup added

Postage at actual USPS cost - postage is never marked up; it is invoiced separately at the actual amount USPS charges

Clean contract boundaries - services outside the contract's scope, such as die cutting or lamination, appear as separate, clearly labeled line items so nothing hides inside a contract price

Here is what that looks like on paper. An STC quote from MPA itemizes the work the way the contract defines it: printing counted per finished piece and per printed side, paper listed at its actual cost, mail services such as folding, inserting, and sorting shown per piece, and postage carried as its own line, invoiced at the actual USPS amount rather than estimated and padded. If a job needs document composition work, such as file setup, artwork adjustments, or variable data setup, that time is estimated up front and billed at the hours actually worked. Your finance office sees every number and what it pays for, which is the whole point of buying under a contract.

Who Can Purchase

Florida state agencies are the contract's primary purchasers. Our team prepares STC quotes for agencies such as the Florida Department of Transportation, the Department of Health, and the Department of Management Services, and other eligible users authorized to purchase against state term contracts can buy the same way. Not sure whether your entity qualifies? Your purchasing office can confirm, or call us and we will walk through it together.

How To Start

Tell us the document, the quantity, and the deadline. You receive a line-item quote that references contract 80141800-25-STC, separates printing, mail services, and postage, and states delivery timing. The contract recognizes Same Day, Next Day, and Delayed schedules, so the timeline is part of the quote rather than a surprise after it.

"Procurement officers are graded on defensibility, not just price. A quote written against State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC points back to a contract the Florida Department of Management Services administers through dms.myflorida.com, so a purchasing office can verify the structure instead of taking a vendor's word for it. Then presort does the quiet work: government mailers entering through a certified presort operation typically save 20 to 40 percent on postage compared with single-piece rates."

Alec Boye, President, Mail Processing Associates

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Florida State Contract Vendor

Florida Dept. of Transportation

Florida Dept. of Management Services

Division of State Group Insurance

Local Government Clients

Polk County City of Lakeland City of Winter Haven City of Auburndale

Veteran-Owned. Established 1989.

MPA is a veteran-owned print and mail company with 35+ years of operational history and Florida VBE certification through the Department of Management Services. This may provide procurement preferences on state and local contracts.

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Simplify Procurement

One Vendor. One PO. One Point of Contact.

Stop juggling printers, mail houses, and data processors. MPA handles everything under one roof - from data processing to USPS entry.

Single vendor = simplified procurement - one RFP, one contract, one invoice

USPS presort facility - maximize postal discounts, 20-40% savings typical

Data processing in-house - NCOA, deduplication, CASS certification

Accountability - no finger-pointing between vendors when issues arise

20-40%

Postal Savings

Through USPS presort processing

USPS-Certified Presort Facility

Full-Service Capabilities

What We Print & Mail for Government

Most Requested

TAX BILLS

Property tax bills, assessment notices, and tax-related communications. Variable data printing for personalized mailings at any volume.

Variable Data High Volume
Municipal

UTILITY BILLS

Water, electric, and utility billing with presort for maximum postal savings.

Legal

PUBLIC NOTICES

Legal notices, public hearings, zoning changes. Proof of mailing included.

Time-Sensitive

ELECTIONS

Voter info, sample ballots, polling notices. We meet statutory deadlines.

Rush Available
Regulatory

PERMITS

Renewal notices, license documents, permit mailings with tracking.

Community Outreach

CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS

Newsletters, community updates, emergency notifications, public information campaigns.

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Program Depth

Built Around the Government Mail Calendar

Most government mail runs on a calendar that does not move. Tax bills compress into a once-a-year crunch, utility bills cycle every month, public notices live inside statutory windows, and election mail has dates set in law. Our team builds each program around its own calendar, with the address hygiene, compliance handling, and audit documentation that public mail requires.

Annual Cycle

Tax Bill Printing and Mailing

Tax bill printing and mailing is a once-a-year test of a vendor's process. Final files often arrive only days before the statutory mail date, every piece carries a unique parcel or account amount, and the run has to balance against your source file. We proof variable data against the data you send, run CASS certification and NCOA address screening before printing so fewer bills come back undeliverable, and document the job from data receipt to USPS entry so your office has proof of mailing on file.

Monthly Cycle

Utility Bill Printing

Utility bill printing never gets a month off. What matters is a window that repeats reliably: data in on the same day, bills in the mailstream on schedule, postage minimized through presort every single cycle. Address hygiene runs monthly, not once a year, because rate payers move constantly. If your billing file carries sensitive account data, send us your data file through secure SFTP and it stays inside a SOC 2 Type 2 audited environment until the job is complete. Our statement printing service covers the full recurring billing workflow.

Statutory Windows

Public Notices

Hearing notices, assessment notices, code enforcement letters, and annexation notices live or die on dates. We plan each notice backward from its statutory window and provide documentation showing when pieces entered the mailstream. Small runs get flagged early: USPS Marketing Mail carries a 200-piece minimum, so a short statutory notice is planned as First-Class from the start rather than failing at the dock.

Fixed Deadlines

Election Mail

Sample ballots, polling place notices, and voter information cards have deadlines set in law and zero tolerance for slippage. We schedule election work backward from the statutory date, hold proofing checkpoints along the way, and enter mail at the USPS Business Mail Entry Unit with postal documentation in hand. When the calendar is immovable, the process has to be.

Benefits & Health Data

Benefits and Health Communications

When government mail carries benefits or health information, such as state group insurance communications, privacy obligations follow the data. MPA operates a HIPAA-compliant production environment with SOC 2 Type 2 audited controls, limited staff access, and data deletion after project completion. The same disciplines that protect our healthcare mailing clients protect benefit-related government mail.

Community Outreach

Citizen Communications

Newsletters, program announcements, and emergency notifications only work if the list is clean and the postage math holds. We pair full-service mailing services with presort entry so outreach budgets stretch further, and we keep formats flexible: postcards for speed, newsletters for depth, letters for authority.

How Government Agencies Plan Their Document Programs

Five programs, five calendars. Here is how the planning realities compare.

Document Program Cycle Planning Window Compliance Handling Typical Format
Tax bills Annual Files often final only days before statutory mail dates Variable data proofing, CASS and NCOA hygiene, proof of mailing Letter with insert, or self-mailer
Utility bills Monthly Recurring window, same days each month Secure data handling, address hygiene every cycle Letter with remittance envelope
Public notices Per statute or ordinance Often short and fixed in law Proof of mailing, First-Class handling below 200 pieces Letter or flat
Election mail Per election calendar Planned backward from dates set in law Statutory deadlines, USPS coordination, documentation Postcard, letter, or flat
Citizen communications As needed or seasonal Flexible, planned around budget cycles Address hygiene, postage economy through presort Postcard, newsletter, or self-mailer

Each of these programs can be quoted under State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC when the buyer is an eligible purchaser, and quoted commercially when it is not. Either way, the production discipline is identical: the same presort entry, the same address hygiene, the same documentation. The contract changes how you buy. It does not change how carefully the work is run.

Compliance Handling on Every Government Job

Every government program at MPA runs inside the same compliance envelope. Data arrives through secure SFTP, is processed under SOC 2 Type 2 audited controls, and is deleted after project completion. Where benefits or health data appears, HIPAA obligations apply and we operate accordingly. Address files get CASS certification and NCOA move screening before production, so undeliverable mail is caught before it is printed instead of after it bounces. Jobs enter the mailstream at the USPS Business Mail Entry Unit with postal documentation retained for your records, and invoices itemize quantities, dates, and unit detail so an auditor can reconcile the job months later. None of this is an add-on. It is the default way our team runs public sector work.

Documentation follows the same pattern at the purchasing end. Quotes itemize printing, paper, mail services, and postage as separate lines, delivery timing is stated rather than implied, and invoices match the quote structure so reconciliation is a comparison, not an investigation. When a job runs under the State Term Contract, the contract number appears on the quote itself. When it does not, you still get the same line-item discipline, because audit season does not care which way the job was bought.

"Government files get the same two screens before anything prints: CASS certification to standardize every address, then NCOA against USPS change-of-address data, because the Move Update standard published at pe.usps.com requires addresses to be current within 95 days of mailing. On a tax or utility cycle, that step decides whether a bill lands or comes back through your call center. We also flag the USPS Marketing Mail 200-piece minimum during planning, so a short statutory notice is built as First-Class from day one instead of stalling at entry."

Cat Boye, Head of Commercial Operations, Mail Processing Associates

Election Mail Operations

Election Mail, Run Like the Statute Reads

Election mail is the least forgiving program in public-sector printing. The dates are set in statute, the audience is the registered voter file, and there is no second mail date if the first one slips. Our team runs election administration mail the way the calendar demands: scheduled backward, proofed at named checkpoints, entered early, and documented at every step from data lock to USPS entry.

Scope of Work

What We Print and Mail

Voter information cards, sample ballots, polling place change notices, vote-by-mail application packages, and election-related public notices. Every variable piece is proofed against the voter file extract you send, so the record that prints matches the record you certified. Address corrections found during hygiene are reported back to your office rather than silently changed.

Postal Logistics

USPS Coordination Realities

Election mail moves best when the Business Mail Entry Unit knows it is coming. We confirm entry dates with USPS in advance, identify election mail per USPS guidance so it is visibly flagged through the network, and enter time-critical pieces as First-Class Mail. USPS publishes its election mail resources for officials at usps.com, and we plan each job against that guidance rather than assumption.

Schedule Control

Deadline Discipline

Every election job is scheduled backward from the statutory date with named checkpoints: data lock, proof approval, print completion, USPS entry. Slack is built in ahead of the legal date, not promised after it. If a checkpoint slips on your side, you know the same day, with the recovery options and their consequences in writing.

Operational, Not Political

This section covers election administration mail: the documents that let supervisors of elections, county clerks, and municipal election offices run an election. The work is non-partisan by design. We print what the statute requires, for the office that administers it, and the same production standard applies regardless of what an election decides. Campaign mail for candidates and committees is a different discipline with its own compliance rules; it lives on our political mail page.

Scale planning starts with public data. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission's Election Administration and Voting Survey, published at eac.gov, tracks how Americans actually vote, and roughly one in three voters has cast a mail ballot in recent federal cycles. For an election office, that share translates directly into print volume: vote-by-mail application packages, ballot-adjacent inserts, and the wave of notices that follows every precinct boundary or polling place change. We size capacity from your county's actual numbers, not the national average, and confirm the production window in writing before the statutory clock starts.

The working calendar matters as much as the volume. Vote-by-mail application packages move earliest, sample ballots and voter information cards cluster ahead of early voting, and polling place change notices can surface with almost no runway when a location falls through late. We hold capacity for that last category specifically, because it is the one an election office can least predict, and we confirm every entry date against USPS election mail guidance rather than against hope. During a surge week, the press schedule serves the election calendar, never the other way around, and your office gets a single point of contact who knows the job by name.

Capacity is the quiet question behind every election conversation, so here is the direct answer: variable data work runs in-house on the Xerox Iridesse production press at up to 120 pages per minute color, black-and-white document volume runs alongside it, and presort and USPS entry happen in the same building. When a county's entire voter file needs a card in the mail during one week, the constraint that matters is schedule discipline, not equipment, and the schedule is agreed in writing before the job is accepted.

"Election mail planning starts with one number: roughly one in three American voters has cast a mail ballot in recent federal elections, per the Election Assistance Commission's Election Administration and Voting Survey at eac.gov. That share swings county by county, so we size each job from the actual voter file, not the national average. Then the calendar takes over. We schedule backward from the statutory date with named checkpoints, because the one thing an election office cannot buy back is a missed mail date."

Cat Boye, Head of Commercial Operations, Mail Processing Associates

Statutory Notices

Public Notice Mailing, Built Backward from the Statute

A public notice mailing is a legal act. Hearing notices, annexation procedures, special assessment notices, utility rate changes, and code enforcement actions all carry mailing obligations with defined windows, and a notice that misses its window can void the action it supports. The workflow below is how our team turns a statutory obligation into a documented mailing.

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Identify the Window

We read the deadline the way your attorney does: the notice must be mailed, or received, by a date certain. Production is planned backward from that date with margin, and the plan is confirmed before files are final.

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Pick the Class

First-Class Mail is the default for statutory notices: faster delivery, with forwarding and return service included. Runs under 200 pieces are First-Class by rule, since USPS Marketing Mail carries a 200-piece minimum.

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Clean the List

CASS certification standardizes every address and NCOA screening catches movers before print. A notice that comes back undeliverable is a notice you may have to send again, on a statutory clock that has not stopped.

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Document the Entry

Pieces enter at the USPS Business Mail Entry Unit, and the dated postal documentation is retained with the job record. If your procedure requires an affidavit of mailing, we provide the production records that support it.

When the Statute Names a Person, Certify It

Certified Mail is the step up for individually noticed actions. When a statute or ordinance requires proof that a specific person received a specific notice, think code enforcement orders, lien notices, and due process letters, Certified Mail adds a mailing receipt and a delivery record to the First-Class timeline. USPS documents the service and its options, including Return Receipt, at usps.com. We flag the per-piece premium honestly: certify the pieces the statute requires, and let the rest of the run travel First-Class. The two streams run from the same data file, in the same job, with one documentation package at the end.

Where notices repeat, the workflow stays loaded. Monthly assessment cycles, recurring code enforcement runs, and annual rate change notices keep their templates, data mapping, and documentation requirements on file with our mailing services team, so cycle two is faster than cycle one and cycle twelve is routine.

The notice families we see most: public hearing and rezoning notices tied to meeting dates, annexation notices that follow statutory service procedures, special assessment notices that must precede adoption hearings, code enforcement orders that start due process clocks, and utility rate change notices that have to land before the new rate appears on a bill. Each family has its own window, its own audience file, and its own documentation expectation, and the production plan is written against the specific statute in front of us rather than a generic notice template.

Postage Planning

Choosing a Mail Class for Government Programs

Mail class is a deadline instrument. The right class for a government mailing is the cheapest one that still lands inside the legal or operational window. These are the planning windows we quote, measured from USPS entry, not from the day your files arrive.

Mail Class Government Fit Planning Window Planning Notes
First-Class Mail Tax bills, statutory notices, election mail, anything with a legal date 2-5 business days Forwarding and return service included; no minimum quantity
USPS Marketing Mail Newsletters, program updates, outreach without a statutory deadline 5-10 business days 200-piece minimum; lowest postage per piece; saturation options for route-level coverage
Certified Mail Individually noticed actions: code enforcement, liens, due process letters 2-5 business days plus signature handling Mailing receipt and delivery record; per-piece premium
EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) Community-wide alerts, construction and project notices to every door 7-10 business days from USPS drop No mailing list required; reaches every address on selected carrier routes

Two budget notes worth knowing. Commercial Marketing Mail letter postage starts around $0.43 per piece under current USPS Notice 123 rates, which is why outreach without a deadline almost never belongs in First-Class. And entry point matters as much as class: direct USPS BMEU entry eliminates middleman handling, reducing transit time and improving in-home dates by 1-2 days versus dropping at a destination delivery unit.

Budget timing matters too. USPS typically adjusts rates in January and July, so a mailing program priced in spring can cross a rate change before the fiscal year closes. We re-quote standing government programs at each USPS rate change and flag the difference in writing, which keeps purchase orders accurate and spares your finance office a postage variance it has to explain at year end.

Worked example, the way we actually plan it: a tax bill with a statutory mail-by date gets First-Class entry, so the in-home window is 2-5 business days after USPS entry. Walk backward from there: the entry day, production and presort time ahead of it, your proof approval ahead of that, and final data ahead of that. That chain, not the postage rate, decides whether a deadline is comfortable or a scramble, and it is why we ask for the statutory date in the very first conversation.

When the deadline is statutory, plan the whole chain rather than just the postage. Our mail date planner works backward from the in-home date your statute or program requires and shows the file, proof, and entry dates that protect it. For recurring billing programs, our statement printing team runs this math every cycle so the window never drifts.

Audit Trail

What an Auditor Wants From Your Mail Vendor

Months after a mailing drops, someone who never saw the job will read its file. The auditor does not care that the mail moved on time; the auditor cares whether the file proves it. Government work at MPA is built to close that file cleanly, and the three exhibits below are what your auditor will ask for first.

Exhibit One

Piece Counts That Reconcile

Records received, pieces printed, pieces entered: three numbers that must agree, with spoilage accounted for. The count on the quote, the count on the USPS postage statement, and the count on the invoice match, because an auditor reads all three side by side.

Exhibit Two

Postage Reconciliation

Postage is a pass-through, invoiced at the actual USPS amount on its own line and never marked up. The USPS postage statement shows piece count, weight, rate category, and postage paid, so your finance office ties the postage line to a federal document rather than a vendor's assertion.

Exhibit Three

Proof of Mailing

Dated entry documentation from the Business Mail Entry Unit, retained with the job record. For statutory notices, the production file supports an affidavit of mailing if your procedure requires one, and the records stay available when questions surface later.

How a Government Mail Order Moves Through MPA

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    Request a quote. Send the document, quantity, and deadline. Eligible Florida purchasers can request pricing under State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC; everyone else receives the same line-item structure quoted commercially.

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    Receive a line-item quote. Printing, paper, mail services, and postage appear as separate lines, with delivery timing stated. STC quotes carry the contract number in the header.

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    Issue your purchase order. Your purchasing office runs its normal process. The quote is built to drop into a procurement file as-is.

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    Transfer data securely. Send us your data file through secure SFTP. It stays inside access-limited, SOC 2 Type 2 audited systems for the life of the job.

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    Approve the proof. Variable data is proofed against your source file, and production waits for your written sign-off.

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    Production and USPS entry. Print, address hygiene, presort, and entry at the USPS Business Mail Entry Unit, with the entry date documented.

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    Receive the documentation package. Postage statement detail, final counts, and proof of mailing, with an invoice that matches the quote structure line for line.

The invoice closes the loop. It mirrors the quote: printing, paper, mail services, and postage each on their own line, quantities and unit detail shown, postage carried at the actual USPS amount, and the contract number referenced when the job ran under the STC. When a records request or finding review starts two budget cycles later, the person reading the file can trace every dollar from quote to postage statement to invoice without calling anyone, and that is the standard the whole workflow exists to protect.

"Auditors do not audit mail. They audit the paper around it. A single USPS postage statement, PS Form 3602, lists piece count, weight, rate category, and postage paid to the penny, and USPS documents the postage statement process at postalpro.usps.com. When the quote, the postage statement, and the invoice all carry the same counts, an audit finding turns into a checkmark."

Alec Boye, President, Mail Processing Associates

Citizen Data

The Custody Chain for Citizen Data

Every government mailing is a data handling event before it is a printing event. A tax roll, a utility billing file, a voter extract, or a benefits roster leaves your network and enters ours, and the controls on that journey matter more than the paper. Here is the custody chain citizen data follows at MPA, in order.

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Secure Intake

Files arrive through our secure file transfer portal, not email attachments. The file lands inside controlled systems and stays there.

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Limited Access

Staff access is need-to-know. The people who touch your file are the people producing your job, and no one else.

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Audited Controls

Production runs inside SOC 2 Type 2 audited controls, examined annually, with HIPAA obligations applied wherever benefits or health data appears.

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Address Hygiene

CASS certification standardizes addresses and NCOA screening updates movers against USPS change-of-address data, with approximately a 94% match rate and 98.5% deliverability after hygiene.

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Controlled Production

Variable data prints in-house on the Xerox Iridesse production press, and the job never changes hands between data intake and USPS entry.

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Deletion After Completion

Data is deleted after project completion per our retention policy. Our published security controls live at trust.mailpro.org.

Address hygiene is a security control, not just a postage saver. A misdelivered benefits letter is an exposure event; a returned tax bill is a service failure on a statutory clock. Cleaning the list before print, then entering mail directly at the BMEU, shrinks both risks at once. For agencies that need list preparation beyond hygiene, our data services team handles merge, dedupe, and suppression work under the same controls, inside the same building, on the same job ticket.

What we ask of your team is deliberately small: send the file through the secure portal rather than email, tell us which fields drive the variable content, and name the person who approves the proof. We return a data map for sign-off before anything prints, report record counts at intake and again at USPS entry, and put the deletion date on the job record. Your security office can review the full control set at trust.mailpro.org before the first file ever moves, and most reviews close in one pass because the controls are already documented.

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Built for Government Requirements

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Established 1989

VBE

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Citizen Data Protected

Secure file transfer, limited staff access, data deleted after project completion. View our security controls.

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Government Printing FAQs

Is MPA a certified Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE)?

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Yes. MPA is a certified Veteran Business Enterprise through the Florida Department of Management Services. This certification may provide procurement preferences for state and local government contracts. We can provide certification documentation upon request.

What government entities does MPA work with?

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We serve state agencies, county governments, municipalities, school districts, utility authorities, and other public entities in all 50 states. Florida public buyers can also purchase against our State Term Contract. Our services scale from small municipal mailings to large state agency projects with millions of pieces.

Can you handle sensitive citizen data securely?

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Yes. We maintain strict data security protocols including secure file transfer portal, limited staff access on a need-to-know basis, and data deletion after project completion. View our full security controls.

What documentation do you provide for procurement compliance?

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Detailed invoices with quantities, dates, unit costs, and totals. We understand government procurement requirements and provide whatever documentation your procurement office needs for audits and compliance reporting. VBE certification documents available upon request.

Do you offer USPS presort discounts?

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Yes. As a USPS-certified presort facility, we process mail to maximize postal discounts. Government entities typically save 20-40% on postage through our presort services compared to single-piece rates. We handle NCOA processing, CASS certification, and all USPS requirements. For a detailed look at current postcard postage rates, see our pricing guide.

What's your typical turnaround time?

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Standard turnaround is 5-7 business days from approved files to USPS entry. Rush service is available when statutory deadlines or urgent situations require faster delivery. We understand government timelines and work with you to meet critical dates.

Can you handle variable data printing?

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Yes. Our Xerox Iridesse production press handles high-volume variable data printing - different content on every piece. Perfect for personalized tax bills, utility statements, permits, and citizen communications where each piece needs unique information.

Does MPA hold a Florida state printing contract?

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Yes. MPA is an awarded contractor under Florida State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC, Service Category 1: Mail Processing. The contract covers printing impressions, paper, and mail processing services under a pre-negotiated rate structure, and every quote we prepare under it references the contract number so your procurement file is complete.

Who can purchase under State Term Contract 80141800?

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Florida state agencies are the primary purchasers, and other eligible users authorized to buy against state term contracts can purchase the same way. We prepare STC quotes for agencies such as the Florida Department of Transportation, the Department of Health, and the Department of Management Services. If you are not sure whether your entity qualifies, check with your purchasing office or call us at (863) 687-6945 and we will help you confirm.

Do we need a separate bid to use the contract?

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A state term contract exists so that terms and a rate structure are negotiated in advance at the state level, which is what lets eligible purchasers buy against it through their normal purchasing process for routine print and mail work. Your purchasing office confirms the procedure that applies to your entity and project, and our team supports it with a line-item quote that references contract 80141800-25-STC.

How does pricing work under the State Term Contract?

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Quotes follow the contract's pre-negotiated structure. Printing is quoted per impression for color or black-and-white work, paper and envelopes outside the standard stock pass through at cost with no markup, mail services such as folding, inserting, and sorting are quoted per piece, and postage is always invoiced separately at the actual USPS amount. Anything outside the contract's scope appears as a separate, clearly labeled line item. Request a quote and we will price your job against the contract.

Can MPA handle election mail for election offices?

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Yes, on the administrative side. We print and mail voter information cards, sample ballots, polling place change notices, and vote-by-mail application packages for supervisors of elections, county clerks, and municipal election offices, planned backward from dates set in statute and entered as First-Class Mail with documentation retained. The work is strictly operational and non-partisan. Campaign and candidate mail is a separate service with its own compliance rules; see our political mail page.

Which mail class should a government mailing use?

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Match the class to the deadline. First-Class Mail typically delivers in 2-5 business days after USPS entry and fits tax bills, statutory notices, and anything carrying a legal date. USPS Marketing Mail typically delivers in 5-10 business days, requires at least 200 pieces, and fits newsletters and outreach without a deadline. Certified Mail adds signature proof for individually noticed actions, and EDDM saturation reaches every door on selected routes 7-10 business days from USPS drop. Our mail date planner works backward from your required in-home date.

What does MPA provide after the mailing for an audit file?

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A documentation package: final piece counts reconciled from data intake through USPS entry, postage statement detail showing count, weight, rate category, and postage paid, dated proof of mailing from the Business Mail Entry Unit, and an invoice that matches the quote structure line for line. For statutory notices, the production records also support an affidavit of mailing if your procedure requires one.

Can MPA print and mail tax bills for counties outside Florida?

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Yes. Tax bills, utility bills, and notices mail from our Lakeland production facility to recipients in all 50 states, and USPS entry works the same way regardless of where your county sits. Out-of-state agencies receive the same line-item quotes, the same proofing workflow, and the same documentation package; the only Florida-specific part of this page is the State Term Contract purchasing path.

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