Micro Mailing Canada
Neighbourhood Mail and Flyer Delivery in Canada
Neighbourhood Mail is Canada Post's answer to every door direct mail: it delivers your piece to every address on a letter carrier walk you choose, with no names, no list, and a lower postage rate than addressed mail. It is the standard tool for reaching a defined local area fast.
What Neighbourhood Mail Is and How It Reaches Every Mailbox
If you've read American marketing material, you've seen the phrase every door direct mail, or EDDM. Canada has no EDDM; the Canada Post equivalent is Neighbourhood Mail (formerly Unaddressed Admail), and it works the same way. Canada Post divides the country into letter carrier walks, and once you choose a walk, every address on it receives your piece, whether that's a house, an apartment or a business.
Because no names are attached, there's no list to buy or clean, and no privacy exposure to manage. The postage rate is also lower than name-addressed mail, which is why flyer mailing by walk remains the cheapest way to put a piece into a defined local area. For a full comparison of Canada Post's mail products, see our Canada Post direct mail overview.
Who Should Use Neighbourhood Mail
Neighbourhood Mail suits businesses whose customers are defined by where they live rather than who they are. A restaurant opening near a new walk, a clinic drawing from the surrounding blocks, a gym signing up members within a short drive, and a home services company covering a service radius all fit this pattern more naturally than a name-and-address list ever could. See how it applies to restaurants or to home services businesses working a defined territory.
It also fits situations rather than industries: opening a new location, announcing a move, running an area-wide offer, or testing whether mail works at all before spending money building a list. If you already know exactly who you want to reach by name rather than by address, Personalized Mail (formerly Addressed Admail) is the better product; our Personalized Mail page covers when that switch makes sense.
Good fit
Restaurants, clinics, gyms, retail stores and home services companies whose customers are defined by geography, plus any business opening, moving or announcing something to a specific area.
Not the right product
If you already know exactly who to reach by name, Personalized Mail targets specific addresses instead of an entire walk.
What we handle
Route selection, printing, per-walk bundling, manifesting and deposit at the correct Canada Post facility.
Choosing Routes Without Wasting the Budget
This is where most flyer campaigns are won or lost. Blanketing the widest possible area is rarely the best use of a mailing budget. Canada Post publishes household counts and demographic characteristics by walk, so route selection can be a decision rather than a guess, narrowed by drive time from your location, by household profile, or by where your existing customers already come from.
We help select the walks, then handle the rest: printing, bundling into the required per-walk quantities, manifesting, and depositing at the correct facility. If you're building a full campaign around this rather than a single drop, our campaign planning guide walks through the sequence.
What to Print and How to Prepare It
Neighbourhood Mail accepts flyers, postcards, brochures and folded self-mailers. Because unaddressed pieces get read in the few seconds between the mailbox and the recycling bin, the offer needs to be legible at arm's length: one clear offer, one clear action, one deadline. Our postcard printing page covers the sizes that perform best in a mailbox drop.
Once artwork is ready, we handle bundling into the walk quantities Canada Post requires, plus the mailing services work of manifesting and depositing at the correct facility, so the piece has one job left: to make its offer obvious in the time it takes to walk from the mailbox to the door.
What makes a mailing work
- Confirm the goal is local reach, not a named list
- Select walks by drive time, household profile, or existing customer locations
- Choose a format: flyer, postcard, brochure, or folded self-mailer
- Keep one offer, one action, and one deadline visible at a glance
- Bundle and manifest to Canada Post's per-walk quantities
- Request a quote with your area and quantity
Frequently asked questions
What is Neighbourhood Mail in Canada?
Neighbourhood Mail is Canada Post's version of every door direct mail. It delivers your flyer, postcard or self-mailer to every address on a letter carrier walk you choose, without requiring any names or a mailing list, at a lower postage rate than addressed mail.
How is Neighbourhood Mail different from Personalized Mail?
Neighbourhood Mail reaches every address on a chosen walk with no names attached, while Personalized Mail targets specific people or households by name instead. Choose Neighbourhood Mail when your customers are defined by area; choose Personalized Mail when you already know exactly who to reach.
Do I need a mailing list to use Neighbourhood Mail?
No. That is the point of the product. Canada Post delivers to every address on the walks you select, so there is no list to buy, no list to clean, and no names to manage for privacy purposes.
How do I choose which routes to mail?
Canada Post publishes household counts and demographic characteristics for each letter carrier walk, so routes can be chosen by drive time from your location, by household profile, or by where your current customers already live, rather than by guessing at a wide radius.
What can I print for a Neighbourhood Mail drop?
Flyers, postcards, brochures and folded self-mailers are all accepted formats. Because the piece is read in the seconds between the mailbox and the recycling bin, it needs one clear offer, one clear action and a visible deadline rather than several messages competing for attention.
Is Neighbourhood Mail cheaper than addressed mail?
Yes. Because no names are attached, the postage rate is lower than name-addressed mail, which is why flyer mailing by walk remains the cheapest way to reach a defined local area. Exact pricing depends on your walks and quantity; request a quote for a per-piece figure.
What businesses get the most from Neighbourhood Mail?
Businesses whose customers are defined by geography rather than by profile, such as restaurants, clinics, gyms, retail stores and home services companies, along with any business opening, moving or announcing something to a specific area.
Quick quote
Price your campaign
Send the neighbourhood, the quantity and the date you want it in homes. You get a single price covering data, printing, mail preparation and postage.
- Printing and postage quoted together
- Canada Post booking handled for you
- No account or minimum contract
