Mailing list management and upkeep is industry mailing list expensive. It takes a lot of time and labor for companies to compile, add to, clean and mail to their lists and other necessary maintenance. They also use expensive mailing list software industry mailing list programs which can have costly bugs of their own. To help you plan ahead, before you order your mailing lists, ask when you can expect the order to arrive. This can vary industry mailing list considerably from company to company. Some companies can take up to two weeks or more. Mailing lists can usually be ordered in at least three formats. Peel and stick (pressure-sensitive) labels or industry mailing list Cheshire (18 pound, spreadsheet-size computer paper--less common these days) or on a floppy disk (used less often these days) or CD. You order peel and stick industry mailing list labels if they're going to be affixed to your mailing piece by hand. Or if you know how to import the lists you can order them on CD. If your mailing house is going to do your mailing industry mailing list they'll probably prefer the floppy disk or CD - check with them on this before you order. Mailing houses used to require the Cheshire industry mailing list format instead of peel and stick labels before the advent of computer technology and CD ROM. They have machines that cut the printed Cheshire sheets into labels industry mailing list and glue them to the envelopes. When ordering lists on CD, specify the format you want to use for conversion, usually ASCII comma-delimited. You must know how to import it industry mailing list when you get the disk though. The mailing lists will always be for one-time use only even if they're on a CD or disk. And some mailing list companies offer instant downloads of lists.