Political & Franked Mail
Election dates do not move. Neither do ours.
Campaigns, party committees, PACs, and elected officials get the production capacity, speed, and postal expertise to reach every voter and constituent on schedule.
USPS Full-Service Certified · AAPC Member · Vista, CA
Our specialty
Political and franked mail, on deadline
Campaigns, committees, and elected officials trust Plavidian with the mail that cannot miss its window. Fast turnaround, per-piece verification, and AAPC membership.
A free Plavidian Connect account includes:
- 10 self-service tools, free
- Plavidian Studio™ - print-ready artwork in your browser NEW
- Online estimates and job creation
- Proof review and file exchange
- Postage summaries and postal reports
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The real thing: your Job Control Center inside Plavidian Connect™.
From spreadsheet to mailbox, under one roof
Data services
CASS, NCOA, dedupe, householding, and suppression on your list.
Variable-data print
Postcards, letters, self-mailers, and booklets, versioned per record.
Finishing & assembly
Folding, inserting, tabbing, and addressing on camera-monitored lines.
Mail preparation
Presort, tray and pallet prep, and Full-Service electronic documentation.
USPS entry & visibility
Acceptance and drop shipment, with scan-based tracking through Plavidian Insight™.
Cards, letters, flats, and more
Plavidian Studio™: design print-ready mail in your browser
Plavidian Studio builds postcards, flyers, door hangers and self-mailers the way prepress would - bleed and safe zone drawn for you, the permit and address area placed by USPS rules, photos checked at 300 dpi, color in CMYK - and saves a press-ready PDF straight onto your job.
- ✓ 51 fonts, shapes, lines, QR codes, photos and your own PDFs (crop marks removed, elements erasable)
- ✓ One-click permit & address area for letters and flats; die and fold guides for door hangers and folded pieces
- ✓ Templates assigned to your account, full-screen and 3D proofs, watermarked proof emails
- ✓ RGB and low-resolution warnings with one-click fixes before you save
More than a printer - one partner from artwork to induction
One connected job record for print, data, and mail. You always know what was printed, what was mailed, and what it cost.
About Plavidian →Integrated print & mail
Printing, list processing, presort, permit indicia, and drop-shipment planning in one controlled workflow — held in Plavidian Connect with no email chains or lost versions.
Verified to the piece
Camera verification reconciles every run to your list and diverts failures for reprint — documented in your portal, not assumed (available per job).
USPS Full-Service Certified
USPS-verified mail quality with electronic documentation, Seamless Acceptance, and eInduction.
Data, targeting & capacity
Voter and constituent data, district demographics, and seven-day production capacity to hit your dates.
From quote to mailbox in four steps
Create account
Free, in minutes
Request & start
Estimate or new job
Upload & approve
Artwork, list, proof
Print, mail, report
Postal reports included
Plavidian Workbench™
Validate addresses, estimate postage, identify carrier routes, remove duplicates, and optimize your mailing in moments. Every Plavidian Connect account includes all 10 tools plus Plavidian Expert™, free.
Plavidian Studio™ NEW
Design print-ready postcards, flyers and mailers in your browser - bleed, safe zone, permit and address area built in.
Plavidian Expert™
Ask anything about USPS standards: tabbing, folds, piece sizes, EDDM. Free, no account needed.
Plavidian Blueprint™
Clean the list, price the mailing, and see where it drops.
In-Home Date Estimator
Work backward from the date that matters.
Piece Size Tool
Letter or flat, before it changes your postage.
Permit Imprint Generator
A correct indicia, ready to place.
Weight Calculator
Know the weight before the postage.
Address List Count
Turn a messy list into a mailable one.
Drop Shipment Plan
See where the mail actually goes.
Artwork Analysis
Catch print problems before they print.
PDF Page Splitter
One PDF in, the pages you need out.
All 10 tools plus Expert™, included with every free account.
Get the tools freeVerify every piece, not just the count
Most mailers can show a job was addressed. Plavidian can prove the right pieces were produced and reconciled to your list. When you add camera verification, it reads each piece as it runs and the audit lands in your portal.
- Piece-level camera verification with automatic diverts, available on any addressed job
- The right list bound to the right job from intake
- Print and Camera Audit reports in your portal
