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Mail every home in your neighbourhood

Estimate how many homes are around you, then compare an every-home drop (from $0.45 a home) with addressed postcards that only go where you want them (from $1.63).

Every-home mailing estimate

How many homes?
What is the area like?

Rough guide: about 1,000 homes per km² for typical subdivisions with detached homes and townhouses.

Homes (estimate)

3,142

Tier 1000-4999

Every-home drop

$1,571

$0.50 per home, unaddressed

Addressed postcards

$6,095

$1.94 each, named homes only

An every-home drop is cheapest per piece. Addressed cards cost more each but let you skip homes that don’t fit, so many businesses mail far fewer of them, such as only recent movers.

Estimates only. Your final count comes from the delivery routes in the area you pick. Ask for a firm quote.

Plan this mailing

Explained

How Neighbourhood Mail works

Canada Post Neighbourhood Mail delivers unaddressed pieces to every point of call on the letter-carrier routes you pick. You can usually narrow it by type (houses, apartments, farms or businesses), but not by who lives there. Canada Post sells it directly, through its online tools for small businesses and through printing partners.

The trade-offs are simple:

  • Cheapest per piece because there is no addressing and the postage is lower.
  • No targeting beyond the route: renters, owners, existing customers and competitors all get it.
  • Preparation rules: pieces have to be bundled and delivered to the right depots, which takes planning.
  • Hard to measure unless you add a code or QR to every piece.

Compare

Neighbourhood Mail vs addressed postcards

Live Post Timely prices in CAD, printing included.
Every-home dropAddressed postcards
Who gets itEvery mailbox on the routeOnly the homes or businesses you choose
PersonalisedNoYes, address on every card
Minimum500 homesNone
From (per piece)$0.45$1.63
Best forMenus, openings, broad local offersMovers, homeowners, existing customers, B2B

A common pattern: open with an every-home drop to announce yourself, then keep going with addressed cards to the households that matter most, like new homeowners or the neighbours of recently sold homes.

Plan it

Getting an every-home drop right

  1. Draw your radius around the business, not the whole city: most local customers live within a few kilometres.
  2. Pick one offer with a deadline, and a code or QR so you can count responses.
  3. Time it around paydays and seasons, and leave slack for delivery.
  4. Repeat. A second and third drop to the same homes usually beats one big drop to new ones.

Price one-off addressed mailings in the cost calculator, or read direct mail for small business.

FAQ

Questions people ask

What is Canada Post Neighbourhood Mail?

Neighbourhood Mail is Canada Post’s unaddressed admail service: flyers, postcards and menus delivered to every mailbox on the routes you choose, with no names or addresses. It is the Canadian equivalent of USPS Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM).

Is there an EDDM in Canada?

Not under that name. The closest equivalent is Canada Post Neighbourhood Mail, which you can book through Canada Post or through a print-and-mail partner like us.

What does an every-home drop cost with Post Timely?

Our unaddressed every-home drops start at $0.45 per home at volume, printing included, with a 500-home minimum. Use the estimator for a ballpark and ask for a firm quote once you have picked the area.

When is addressed mail the better choice?

When you only want some of the homes: homeowners rather than renters, houses rather than apartments, recent movers, or your own customers. Addressed postcards start at $1.63 each, but you mail far fewer of them.

How accurate is the household estimate?

It’s a rough guide based on typical housing density, so treat it as a starting point. The final count for an unaddressed drop comes from the actual delivery routes in the area you choose.

What happens during a Canada Post strike?

All mail, addressed and unaddressed, stops moving. The November–December 2024 strike paused deliveries for about a month. Build slack into date-sensitive campaigns and avoid booking time-critical offers into a disruption window.

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