Mail Processing Associates is a full-service commercial printer and direct mail company serving Temple Terrace and the University of South Florida area. Since 1989, we have run print, data, and mail under one roof from our Central Florida production facility, with overnight USPS entry at the Tampa P&DC that feeds Temple Terrace mailboxes. One team, one timeline, one invoice.
Temple Terrace is one of only three incorporated cities in Hillsborough County, and it has kept a distinct character that sets it apart from the Tampa sprawl around it. Laid out in the 1920s around a championship golf course on a bend of the Hillsborough River - and named for the Temple orange groves that once covered the land - it remains a tree-lined city of roughly 27,000 residents with strict architectural standards and a real downtown along Bullard Parkway. Right next door sits the University of South Florida, USF Health, and the Tampa Innovation District, which pour students, faculty, researchers, and medical staff into the local economy. For the businesses serving that mix - medical practices, professional services, restaurants, retailers, and the city itself - reaching Temple Terrace households by mail is still one of the most reliable ways to drive response. That is the work Mail Processing Associates does, from direct mail campaigns to commercial print runs.
MPA is a veteran-owned, single-source commercial printer and direct mail company that has served the Tampa Bay region since 1989. We are not a copy shop, a franchise, or a print broker. Print, data processing, variable data, inserting, presort, and USPS entry all happen under one roof, and the mail bound for Temple Terrace enters the postal stream at the Tampa Processing and Distribution Center on Grant Street in Ybor City - the same facility that sorts every piece headed to the 33617 and 33637 ZIP codes. That direct line into the Hillsborough County mail stream is why a Temple Terrace campaign printed today can be in mailboxes within days, not weeks.
Our track record shows up in the reviews. MPA holds a 5.0 rating across 100+ verified Google reviews, built over years of on-time deliveries, accurate quotes, and problems solved without drama, and we count more than 700 lifetime business customers across Florida and beyond. We know our clients by name and many have worked with us for 10, 15, or 20-plus years. When you work with MPA, you are not routed to a call center - you reach the same people at the same number, project after project.
What separates MPA from most printers a Temple Terrace business will call is that we are full-service: print, data, and mail under one roof. Most shops along 56th Street and Fowler Avenue and in nearby Tampa either only print, or they print and then hand your job to a separate lettershop for mailing - which adds days to your timeline and dollars to your invoice. We do it all in-house and induct the mail ourselves as a USPS Business Mail Entry Unit permit holder. Request a Temple Terrace quote, or keep reading to see exactly what we do for the USF area.
What We Do for Temple Terrace
Six core service lines, one production facility. Every Temple Terrace job stays under our roof from file approval through USPS entry at the Tampa P&DC.
Presorted First-Class and Marketing Mail for Temple Terrace businesses mailing 500 to 500,000-plus pieces. We handle list processing, addressing, presort, and USPS entry in-house. See our print & mail services.
Reach every address on a Temple Terrace carrier route for 24.7 cents per piece in retail postage, with no mailing list required. Use our EDDM planner to pick routes from the Riverhills golf neighborhoods to the USF corridor and launch a saturation campaign.
Postcards, brochures, booklets, catalogs, letterhead, envelopes, and statements on Xerox Iridesse, Versant, and Nuvera presses. Any quantity from 250 to 500,000-plus for Temple Terrace and Hillsborough County. See our commercial printing page.
Vinyl banners, yard signs, retractable banners, trade show graphics, and campus event graphics. We specialize in bulk runs for Temple Terrace events, university programs, and grand openings. See large format options.
Personalize every mail piece with unique names, addresses, offers, imagery, or URLs. Variable data campaigns consistently outperform static mail for Temple Terrace medical practices, professional services, and university-area retailers.
NCOA, CASS certification, merge/purge, deduplication, and targeted list acquisition for Temple Terrace campaigns. Need a new list? Our list builder targets USF-area residents by ZIP, homeowner status, and demographics.
Not sure which service fits your Temple Terrace project? We will walk you through it.
Request a Free QuoteThe MPA Difference
Mail for Temple Terrace and the rest of Hillsborough County is sorted at the Tampa Processing and Distribution Center at 1801 Grant St in Ybor City, only a few miles southwest of the city. As a USPS Business Mail Entry Unit permit holder, MPA presorts in-house and inducts your mail directly, eliminating the middleman handling that adds 1 to 2 days to in-home dates. Your Temple Terrace piece skips a vendor handoff and reaches the right facility faster.
A perfect 5.0 rating with over 100 verified Google reviews, plus more than 700 lifetime business customers across Florida. Reviews and repeat business are the clearest signal a print and mail partner can offer, and ours come from real Tampa Bay customers who keep coming back. When a Temple Terrace business asks a neighbor who they use for mail, this is the kind of answer they hear.
MPA is a certified Veteran Business Enterprise and a registered vendor on the Florida State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC. Our VBE status qualifies City of Temple Terrace contracts, Hillsborough County procurement, and state university purchasing for supplier diversity credit. When we commit to a deadline, we meet it. When we quote a price, we hold it.
Print, data processing, variable data, perfect binding, inserting, presort, and mailing all happen in a single facility. Unlike most printers a Temple Terrace business will find, who either only print or only mail, MPA does both in-house. That is the moat: fewer handoffs, faster turnaround, and one team accountable for the entire job from file to mailbox.
For Temple Terrace healthcare, insurance, and research clients, we carry SOC 2 Type 2 certification and full HIPAA compliance for handling Protected Health Information. With USF Health, the James A. Haley VA, and a dense cluster of clinics next door, that documentation - auditable data handling, employee training, secure destruction, and insurance coverage - is what lets regulated Temple Terrace clients say yes to working with us.
Xerox Iridesse for six-color metallic and white-ink work, Xerox Versant for high-volume four-color, Xerox Nuvera for high-speed black-and-white statement runs, and a Sterling DigiBinder for perfect binding. We run a full production floor, not a single press, so a Temple Terrace job that needs metallic ink, variable data, and a perfect-bound finish never has to leave the building.
A Temple Terrace business shopping for print and mail usually has two kinds of vendors to choose from: a local copy shop that can print a flyer but cannot mail it, or a larger Tampa printer that prints in-house but routes the mailing to a separate lettershop. Both leave gaps. The copy shop sends you toward Fowler Avenue to find a mail house; the big printer adds a vendor, a markup, and a handoff that nobody fully owns. MPA closes both gaps. We are one facility with commercial-grade Xerox production presses, in-house variable data capability, a perfect binder, and a full direct mail operation, all managed by the same team and all inducted at the Tampa P&DC that feeds Temple Terrace.
That single-source model matters most when timing is tight. A USF-area dental practice's recall reminders on a fixed schedule, a Bullard Parkway restaurant's grand-opening EDDM drop, a research group's IRB-approved study invitations, a City of Temple Terrace public notice with a council-meeting deadline - these jobs cannot survive a three-vendor workflow. They need one shop that can print on Monday, process data on Tuesday, insert and presort on Wednesday, and enter the mail at the P&DC on Thursday. That has been the MPA model since 1989.
Production Equipment
The equipment determines what you can print, how fast, and at what quality. Here is the production floor your Temple Terrace job runs on.
Premium Color
Six-color digital press that prints metallic gold, metallic silver, clear gloss, and white dry ink in addition to full CMYK - all in a single pass. Effects that normally require offset plates or foil stamping, available to any Temple Terrace business.
Used for: premium postcards, university event invitations, donor appeals, professional-services brand mailers, any piece where visual impact drives response.
High-Speed B&W
Production monochrome press built for high-volume runs with archival-quality toner. This is the workhorse behind Temple Terrace healthcare patient statements, insurance EOBs, financial statements, and large black-and-white document jobs.
Used for: patient billing, insurance explanation-of-benefits, account statements, compliance notices, legal mail, letters.
Four-Color Workhorse
High-speed production color, up to 120 pages per minute, with auto-calibration for consistent color across long runs. It handles the bulk of Temple Terrace's four-color work - EDDM postcards, brochures, newsletters, sell sheets, and flyers.
Used for: EDDM postcards, targeted direct mail, brochures, nonprofit appeals, political mail, real estate marketing, retail promotions.
In-House Bindery
Perfect binder for catalogs, booklets, manuals, and paperbacks up to two inches thick. Most shops outsource binding, which adds days and dollars. We run this in-house, which matters for Temple Terrace's university programs and professional associations that mail course catalogs, research reports, and directories.
Used for: course catalogs, training manuals, research and annual reports, program books, association directories, self-published booklets.
MPA's Biggest Moat
Print, data processing, variable data, perfect binding, inserting, presort, and mailing all happen under one roof and induct at the Tampa P&DC that serves Temple Terrace. One team, one timeline, one invoice. That combined capability - not any single press - is what no copy shop and few Tampa printers can match.
What this replaces: the standard workflow where a print shop prints your job, then ships files to a separate Tampa-area lettershop that processes the data, inserts, presorts, and enters the mail. We compress that multi-vendor handoff into one accountable team.
Industry Expertise
Decades of experience with the industries that drive the USF area and the city itself.
HIPAA-compliant patient statements, appointment reminders, EOBs, and study invitations. Temple Terrace sits beside one of Florida's largest medical hubs - USF Health, the James A. Haley VA Medical Center, AdventHealth Tampa, and Moffitt Cancer Center - so our SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA documentation is exactly what these providers and research groups need to mail Protected Health Information safely.
With the University of South Florida next door, the area runs on admissions mailers, alumni and donor appeals, event programs, course catalogs, and department newsletters. We print and perfect-bind in-house and personalize with variable data, so a USF-area program can mail a polished, individualized piece to thousands of prospects or alumni at once.
Law firms, accounting practices, financial advisors, and dental and medical offices along Bullard Parkway and 56th Street rely on letterhead, statements, appointment cards, and targeted direct mail. Our in-house data and variable data capabilities keep client communications accurate, on-brand, and compliant.
The shops and restaurants around Bullard Parkway, 56th Street, and the Fowler Avenue retail corridor reach both the stable residential city and the student population with our EDDM service - menus, coupons, and grand-opening mailers delivered to every door, no mailing list required.
Fundraising appeals, year-end giving campaigns, annual reports, and event invitations. Temple Terrace's established churches and community nonprofits benefit from nonprofit Marketing Mail rates and our experience with reply envelopes, personalized asks, and segmented donor lists. Direct mail still earns roughly a 9% response rate on a strong house list.
Public notices, code enforcement letters, utility bills, council-meeting announcements, and citizen communications for the City of Temple Terrace, Hillsborough County, and Florida state agencies. Registered vendor on Florida State Term Contract 80141800-25-STC. VBE certification qualifies for supplier diversity credit on procurement.
Hillsborough County & Beyond
Temple Terrace sits in north-central Hillsborough County, about 9 miles northeast of downtown Tampa, wrapped on three sides by a bend of the Hillsborough River and bordered by I-75, Fowler Avenue, and 56th Street. The University of South Florida, USF Health, and the Tampa Innovation District sit just to the west, while Bullard Parkway carries the city's own downtown. That combination of an established residential city and a major university next door has made the area one of the most distinctive markets in Tampa Bay. From our Lakeland production facility we reach every Temple Terrace ZIP code, and all of it enters the postal stream at the Tampa P&DC - the sorting hub for the entire Hillsborough County area.
Temple Terrace is served across its ZIP codes: 33617 (the original city - the Riverhills golf neighborhoods, the Bullard Parkway downtown, and the Whiteway Drive and Inverness Avenue area) and 33637 (the eastern Telecom Park and Tampa Oaks corridor along I-75 and Morris Bridge Road). Within those we mail to neighborhoods including Riverhills, Theresa, Raintree Manor, Greco, and the apartment communities serving the USF campus. Every one of those areas is reachable through our single-source print and mail operation. For the full picture of services available locally, see our Temple Terrace printing services page.
Hillsborough County coverage extends well beyond Temple Terrace. We regularly print, mail, and deliver to the USF area and New Tampa to the north, Thonotosassa and Mango to the east, Seffner to the south, and into Tampa proper. Our Hillsborough County service area page covers the wider county, and the Tampa location page covers the broader metro.
We also reach the communities surrounding Temple Terrace: Tampa and New Tampa to the west and north, Brandon and Seffner to the southeast, and Thonotosassa, Mango, and Lutz around the edges. For Temple Terrace businesses that serve a regional footprint, a single MPA campaign can blanket the USF area and spill into the rest of Tampa Bay from one production run.
MPA is a single-source provider that handles statewide Florida and nationwide mailings as readily as a local Temple Terrace EDDM drop. We serve businesses in all 50 states from one Central Florida facility, which means a Temple Terrace company or university program reaching beyond the Tampa metro keeps the same print and mail partner as it grows.
MPA serves Temple Terrace and Hillsborough County from our Central Florida production facility, with pickup and delivery throughout the area and direct mail entry at the Tampa P&DC.
An Established City Beside a Major University
Temple Terrace has a story unlike anywhere else in Tampa Bay. Planned in the 1920s as one of America's first golf-course communities - built around what was then a championship course on the Hillsborough River and named for the Temple orange that grew on the surrounding groves - it grew into one of only three incorporated cities in Hillsborough County. It has guarded that identity with strict architectural and tree-canopy standards, so even as the University of South Florida and the Tampa Innovation District exploded next door, the city itself stayed a walkable, owner-occupied community of about 27,000 around Bullard Parkway. The businesses serving that blend of long-tenured residents, students, faculty, and medical staff all need a reliable way to reach Temple Terrace households and the surrounding USF market.
Direct mail remains one of the most dependable channels for doing exactly that, and the numbers back it up. Roughly 90% of households open their mail, the average piece lingers in the home for about 17 days, and a strong house list still pulls around a 9% response rate (DMA 2024) - far ahead of the roughly 1% that email marketing averages. For a Temple Terrace dental office mailing recall reminders, a USF-area program farming alumni for year-end gifts, or a Bullard Parkway restaurant blanketing nearby routes with EDDM, mail is not a nostalgia play; it is the channel that gets opened and acted on - and in a stable, high-ownership city, the same households stay reachable year after year.
MPA brings 35 years of print and mail experience to that opportunity. We have watched Tampa Bay grow from a citrus-and-tourism economy into one of the country's fastest-expanding regions, anchored in no small part by USF, and our customer base has grown with it. For a Temple Terrace business choosing a commercial printer or direct mail partner, the question is not only whether a vendor can print the job - it is whether they will still be there next year, hit the deadline, and own the whole process from file to mailbox. With MPA, the answer has been yes since 1989. Start with a free Temple Terrace quote and we will map your campaign, your routes, and your timeline.
Alec Boye, President, Mail Processing Associates
Veteran-owned, serving Tampa Bay and all 50 states since 1989.
Temple Terrace Resources
Practical next steps for Temple Terrace and USF-area businesses.
Our dedicated Temple Terrace service-area page - reliable, full-service printing and mailing for businesses across the city, from the Riverhills golf neighborhoods to the Telecom Park corridor.
Coverage across all of Hillsborough County, including Temple Terrace, Tampa, Brandon, Plant City, and the wider Tampa Bay metro.
Our Tampa location page - commercial printing and direct mail for the entire Tampa metro, with Tampa P&DC entry.
Our Brandon location page - serving the east Hillsborough corridor a short drive south of Temple Terrace across Seffner and I-75.
Every Door Direct Mail by carrier route - the most cost-effective way to saturate Temple Terrace neighborhoods and the USF corridor with no mailing list required.
Full-service direct mail for Temple Terrace - list processing, presort, variable data, and direct USPS entry, all under one roof.
Transparent Pricing
Direct mail pricing depends on quantity, mail piece format, paper stock, and postage class. Below are reference ranges for common Temple Terrace campaigns. Every quote includes printing, data processing, mail prep, and postage, so you see true landed cost before committing.
| Mail Piece | Quantity | Per-Piece (Print + Mail) | Postage |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDDM Postcard (6.5x9) | 500-5,000 | $0.12-0.22 | 24.7 cents/pc |
| Targeted Postcard (6x9) | 1,000-5,000 | $0.15-0.28 | $0.36-0.43/pc |
| Letter in #10 Envelope | 1,000-5,000 | $0.25-0.45 | $0.433-0.672/pc |
| Self-Mailer (8.5x11) | 1,000-5,000 | $0.18-0.32 | $0.36-0.43/pc |
| Booklet/Catalog (8pg) | 1,000-5,000 | $0.45-0.85 | $0.43-0.70/pc |
Pricing varies by paper stock, coating, variable data complexity, and current USPS rates. All ranges are estimates - request a quote for exact pricing on your Temple Terrace campaign.
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Rush turnaround for political, HIPAA, and time-sensitive runs
Tell us about your Temple Terrace project. We typically return quotes within one business day.
Get a Free Temple Terrace QuoteCommon Questions
We operate from our full-service production facility in Lakeland, roughly 30 miles east of Temple Terrace along the I-4 corridor. We are not a satellite office or a print broker - every press, inserter, and data system lives in one building. Most Temple Terrace clients work with us by email and phone, and we offer scheduled pickup and delivery throughout Temple Terrace and the USF area. Call (863) 687-6945 to get started.
For presorted First-Class mail entered at the Tampa P&DC, Temple Terrace addresses in the 33617 and 33637 ZIP codes typically receive delivery within 1 to 3 business days. EDDM and Marketing Mail take 3 to 10 business days for postal delivery. Standard Temple Terrace direct mail moves from file approval to mailbox in 3 to 7 business days, and 24-hour rush turnaround on printing is available for time-sensitive runs.
Yes. Every Door Direct Mail lets you blanket a Temple Terrace carrier route without a mailing list. USPS EDDM postage is a flat 24.7 cents per piece at retail, and our print-plus-mail pricing runs $0.12 to $0.22 per piece depending on quantity and stock. Use our free EDDM service to map Temple Terrace routes by ZIP - including the Riverhills golf neighborhoods along Bullard Parkway in 33617, the Whiteway Drive and Inverness Avenue area, and the Telecom Park and student corridors near USF in 33637. Most Temple Terrace routes cover 400 to 700 households, with a 200-piece minimum per route.
EDDM requires a minimum of 200 pieces per carrier route. Presorted First-Class mail requires 500 pieces minimum. Marketing Mail requires 200 pieces minimum. For commercial printing without mailing, we handle any quantity from 250 to 500,000-plus pieces. For a small Temple Terrace business testing direct mail for the first time, a single high-density EDDM route through an established neighborhood like Riverhills or Theresa is usually the most cost-effective place to start.
Yes. MPA is HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type 2 certified. We process patient statements, appointment reminders, EOBs, open enrollment packets, study invitations, and other Protected Health Information mailings for Temple Terrace healthcare providers, dental offices, and research groups. The area sits beside USF Health, the James A. Haley VA Medical Center, AdventHealth Tampa, and Moffitt Cancer Center, and our secure data handling protocols, employee training, and audit documentation meet the requirements those providers rely on.
Many Temple Terrace and Tampa print shops only print, then truck files to a third-party lettershop to handle the mailing. That adds markup and days to your timeline. MPA keeps printing, data processing, presort, and USPS entry in one facility, which eliminates the middleman handoff. Our lower overhead versus a Tampa Bay storefront, combined with direct BMEU entry at the Tampa P&DC, generally lands us at or below local pricing on print-and-mail work. Request a free quote to compare line by line.
We offer NCOA (National Change of Address) processing, CASS certification, list deduplication, merge/purge, and targeted mailing list acquisition. We can build a custom Temple Terrace list by ZIP code, homeowner status, income, and demographics - useful for separating the stable, owner-occupied golf-course neighborhoods from the high-turnover student rental corridors near USF - then run it through hygiene that typically achieves approximately a 94% match rate on NCOA processing and 98.5% deliverability after NCOA. Variable data printing personalizes every piece with unique names, offers, and images.
From Temple Terrace we serve the entire USF area and the broader Tampa Bay metro - New Tampa, the Telecom Park corridor, Thonotosassa, Mango, Seffner, and Lutz, plus Tampa proper and Brandon to the southeast. Our Hillsborough County service area and Tampa pages cover the wider metro, and we also handle statewide Florida and nationwide mailings from our facility for businesses serving all 50 states.
Tell us about your Temple Terrace project. We will put together a custom quote with timeline, pricing, and postage estimates - usually within one business day. No minimums on quotes, no obligation.
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