Print Delivery and Shipping

Getting the finished job to you

Print is not finished when it comes off the press. It has to arrive, in one piece, on the date it was needed, and often at more than one address. We handle that last stage ourselves rather than handing your job to a courier and hoping.

Free local and regional delivery

Local and regional delivery is free. Orders go out on our own schedule to your door, which for New Orleans customers usually means no freight line, no terminal, and no waiting for a delivery window someone else set.

It also means a short-notice change is a phone call rather than a claim. If a job has to split between two offices, or half of it has to arrive before the rest, that is a routing decision on our side instead of two separate shipments.

National shipping

Outside the region we ship nationally by parcel or freight depending on weight and pallet count. MPress runs a second plant in McKinney, Texas, so work destined for that part of the country does not always have to travel from Louisiana.

For anything time-critical we will tell you the realistic transit rather than the optimistic one, and we will say when a job needs to leave to arrive on a given date.

Split shipments and multi-location programs

Multi-location businesses rarely want the whole run in one place. We split a job across branches, franchisees or event sites, with each carton packed and labelled for its destination so nobody at the receiving end has to sort it.

Where a program runs over months rather than arriving at once, the run is held and released in stages through fulfillment and warehousing. That is usually cheaper than repeat short runs, because the print is bought once at the better quantity.

Mailing is a different route

If the finished piece is going to customers rather than to you, it does not ship at all, it mails. Addressing, presort and the postal drop are handled in house through direct mail and every door direct mail. Deciding which route a job takes changes how it is produced, so it is worth settling before it prints.

What to tell us

• The date it has to be in hand, and whether that is firm
• Every delivery address, and how the quantity splits between them
• Whether anywhere has a dock, a lift gate, or stairs
• Whether it is being mailed to recipients instead of delivered to you