Printed · Addressed · Dropped at the post office

Pick the area.
We hit every
mailbox in it.

EDDM and targeted direct mail for Tampa Bay businesses. Target by carrier route, ZIP code, city, or a filtered list, and we handle printing, postage, and the postal paperwork.

Start with a ZIP to see routes and household counts. We also target by city, radius, or a filtered list.

5,000 piece minimum · No minimum contract · Free proof before anything prints

Example layouts at the sizes we print. The address side is laid out to postal spec, you never touch it.

Not sure where to start?
Call us. We will tell you what to mail, where, and what it costs.
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35¢
Print and postage per household on a 6.25 x 9 EDDM card at 5,000
72%
Of households read or scan their advertising mail
1.7 sec
Facebook's own number for attention on mobile
33%
Of US internet users run an ad blocker

Sources: USPS Household Diary Study; Facebook newsfeed research; 2026 ad-block usage surveys. The cost figure is our own published rate, not an industry average.

Direct mail vs paid social

Reach the whole street,
not whoever the algorithm picks.

If you sell to people inside a specific radius, mail does something paid ads structurally cannot. It reaches every single household in the area you choose, whether or not they happened to be scrolling.

 Direct MailPaid Social / Search
Who you reach100% of addresses on a route you pickWhoever the algorithm decides to show you to
Physical shelf lifeSits on the counter for days1.7 seconds of attention, by Facebook's own measure
Ad blockersDo not exist for a mailboxAbout a third of US users run one
Cost trajectoryPostage rises slowly and predictablyCPMs climb every year as bidders pile in
Competition in the channelFewer local businesses mail than postEvery competitor is in the same auction
Targeting precisionWhole carrier routes, or your own customer listInterest and behavior signals, increasingly restricted
AttributionQR code, offer code, and mail tracking on every dropPixel-based, degraded by privacy changes

Figures above are directional industry benchmarks, not a promise about your business. The right answer for most local operators is both channels, mail for saturation and trust, digital for retargeting the people mail warmed up. See the full breakdown →

Who this works for

Built for businesses with a service area

If your customers live or work within driving distance, you can be in every one of their mailboxes this month.

The process

Four steps, then it's in hands

  1. 01

    Draw the target

    Target by carrier route, ZIP code, city, or a filtered list. Every route shows household count, median income, and owner-occupancy so you can cut the ones that will not convert.

    Takes about 3 minutes
  2. 02

    Upload art or let us build it

    Send a print-ready PDF, or hand us your logo and offer and we lay it out to postal spec, indicia, address block, clear zones, all of it.

    Proof within 1 business day
  3. 03

    Approve the proof

    Nothing goes on press until you sign off. Change the headline, swap the photo, fix the phone number, no charge for revisions in your plan.

    You control the go button
  4. 04

    We print, sort, and drop

    Printed, bundled by route, paperwork filed, delivered to the postal facility. You get a drop confirmation and an in-home date range.

    In homes in 3 to 7 days
Why we are called Shepherd Direct

Loyalty. Efficiency. Dedication.

The company is named after a German Shepherd. Those three words are what we were going for.

Loyalty

Most of our clients mail the same routes every month. That is not an upsell, it is just how the channel works, and the third card to a street tends to beat the first one badly. If your campaign needs two more drops before it starts paying, we would rather tell you that than sell you a bigger one.

Efficiency

Nothing on this site is locked behind a form. Price a campaign, change your mind, price it again, and never give us your email until you actually want to run it.

Dedication

Nothing goes on press until you approve the proof. If we print it wrong, we reprint and remail at our cost, and that is written into the refund terms rather than just promised on a homepage. Tell us within ten business days of the drop date.

Five percent goes to the shelters

We donate five percent of our profits to animal shelters here in Tampa Bay. The company is named after a dog. It would be strange not to.

Stop guessing what a drop costs.
Price it yourself in three minutes.

Pick a piece, pick your routes, and the builder breaks out print, postage, list, and design line by line. No email required to see the number.

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Not sure which piece to mail?

Tell us your industry and your service area. We'll come back with a recommended piece, a route plan, and a real number.

Or email us directly at hello@shepherddirectmail.com