Personalised advertising with Info.Mail Advertising

Send out personally addressed advertising to specifically target existing clients as well as potential clients. Info.Mail Advertising allows for customised and flexible communication with measurable results.

For what purposes can direct mailings be used?

With direct mailing campaigns, you can reach your target audience in all phases of the marketing funnel.

Use them for the following purposes:

  • New client acquisition
  • Cross-selling and upselling
  • Reactivating existing clients

What are the benefits of direct mailings?

While direct mailing campaigns have many benefits, the focus is usually on customer loyalty through targeted and personalised addressing.

  • Response rate for offers and discounts can immediately be measured
  • High attention thanks to format and haptic experience
  • Customised design options
  • Clients will remember personally addressed items longer than others
  • Creates emotions and motivates to buy

Additional services

Two complimentary and attractive additional services are available:

  • Returns recording, once a year
    Let us help you review an order of your choice (up to a maximum of 100,000 items) to check your recipient database. This will help you identify any undeliverable addresses.
  • Digital expansion, multiple use
    Expand your printed message digitally for orders of 25,000 items or more. Reach potential new clients with targeted online banner displays.

For additional prerequisites, please visit our business client portal ELLA.

What items can be posted as Info.Mail Advertising?

Info.Mail Advertising items are personally addressed direct marketing items that exclusively include ads, marketing or advertising materials published for the purpose of commercial advertising, announcements or recommendations or that directly or indirectly serve such purpose. These include, among others:

  • Offers, discounts, or vouchers for goods and services (including online) 
  • No-commitment offers for goods, services, and prize draws
  • Information about balances and bonus checks 

Eligible item inserts and supplements:

  • Free samples
  • Promotional items
  • Loyalty and club cards (without payment functions or ID function for authentication purposes)
  • Third-party supplements (for the content, the requirements for Info.Mail
     Advertising apply) 
  • Calendars

Requirements:

  • Identical sender for all items (different retailer versions are acceptable)
  • Same format, weight, and packaging for all items
  • Identical basic item (different versions are acceptable)

What items cannot be sent as Info.Mail Advertising?

  • Invoices, payment reminders
  • Requests for the payment of membership dues or subscription fees
  • Account statements, credit information
  • Account information, e.g., PIN codes, TANs, customised or personalised access data or passwords for (online) customer accounts
  • Payment slips (unless they are related to a no-commitment offer)
  • Contractual elements or amendments (except terms and conditions for no-commitment offers)
  • Credit and bank cards as well as chip cards with personalised information on them
  • Picture IDs
  • Cards with ID function 

Alternatively, use our letter service.

 

Info.Mail Advertising Classic or Info.Mail Advertising Plus?

Basic information
Info.Mail Advertising Classic
Info.Mail Advertising Plus
Minimum dimensions
L 140 x W 90 mm
L 140 x W 90 mm
Maximum dimensions
L 235 x W 162 x H 5 mm
L 324 x W 229 x H 24 mm
Maximum weight
50 g
2,000 g
Processing
machine processable, no bundling
not machine processable, bundling required
Format rectangular or square
Minimum volume
500 units (additional payment to reach minimum volume available)
Delivery time
6 business days after posting (Monday through Friday)
Franking impression

In two lines on the outside of the item
Österreichische Post AG
Info.Mail Werbung Entgelt bezahlt

In one line above and clearly separated from the address
(exclusively for window envelopes, address labels, addressed printed directly on the item)

Optional using the product letter "W" for "Werbung" ("advertising"):

Österreichische Post AG Info.Mail W Entgelt bezahlt

or as a round stamp - can be designed as desired (artwork must be clearly different from any valid stamps as well as postal and sender franking impressions). The product letter "W" may be used. Click here for a round stamp template.

Return information

The return information determines how undeliverable items will be handled: 

If you do not want items returned, please indicate the following:
Retouren an Postfach 555, 1008 Wien or Nicht retournieren

Items returned to sender:
Return to sender: 0.02 euros net/item

VAT

Exempt from VAT as part of universal services if posted at a postal branch. Subject to VAT if posted at a distribution centre
Shipping documents
Posting list and bundle label as specified in the Shipping Tool.

Follow these easy steps for posting Info.Mail Advertising Classic items

  • Shipping documents: create your posting list and distribution list (amount of items per postcode) using the Austrian Post Shipping Tool
  • Pre-notification of posting: if you are posting 50,000 items or more, please notify us at least 5 business days (Monday through Friday) before posting using the Austrian Post Posting Manager. 
  • Shipment sample: The transmission of a digital shipment sample is possible in the post shipping tool. After uploading the shipment sample and completing the notification, you will receive confirmation by email as to whether the content of your shipment corresponds to the product you notified. Alternatively, you can provide a shipment sample upon delivery.
  • Posting your items: in letter-mail containers or envelope boxes, standing upright, all addresses facing the same way. Click here for an overview of our posting locations. 

Follow these easy steps for posting Info.Mail Advertising Plus items

  • Shipping documents: create your posting list and distribution list (amount of items per locality bundle, distribution area bundle and residual items) using the Austrian Post Shipping Tool.
  • Pre-notification of posting: if you are posting 10,000 items or more, please notify us at least five business days (Monday through Friday) before posting using the Austrian Post Posting Manager. 
  • Shipment sample: The transmission of a digital shipment sample is possible in the post shipping tool. After uploading the shipment sample and completing the notification, you will receive confirmation by email as to whether the content of your shipment corresponds to the product you notified. Alternatively, you can provide a shipment sample upon delivery.
  • Posting your items: in bundles (by locality and distribution area as well as residual items), including bundle labels, tied crosswise.

For precise delivery: the two-day delivery window

Use our two-day delivery window for your Info.Mail Advertising items for even better planning. After you have made your reservation, your items will be delivered on the 5th and 6th day after posting.

Benefits:

  • Perfect timing for the promotion of offers and events 
  • Optimal coordination of cross-media campaigns
  • Allows for better staff allocation at the points of sale and at the call centre

How it works: the two-day delivery window

Requirements:

  • Available slot in Austrian Post's schedule
  • Minimum volume: 2,500 units for Info.Mail Advertising Classic, 50,000 units for Info.Mail Advertising Plus 
  • Delivery exclusively on two consecutive business days.

Preparing for posting:

  • Inquiry about the two-day delivery window no later than 7 days before posting using the Austrian Post Shipping Tool (please note: if you have different versions of your item, please make a separate inquiry for all of them).
  • Reservation confirmation: Austrian Post will let you know within a business day if your reservation was confirmed.
  • Pre-notification of posting: let us know no later than 5 days before posting your items.
  • Shipping documents: use your reservation number when uploading the recipient addresses to the Austrian Post Shipping Tool.
  • Posting your items: 4 days before the start of the delivery window at distribution centres, large-volume branches or residential postal branches.
  • In the case of changes to the scheduled campaign (volume, weight, format), you need to send us another reservation inquiry no later than 7 days before posting.

Fees for Info.Mail Advertising

Fees depend on several criteria. These include weight, amount of items, and distribution area. For detailed information, please see the Austrian Post download section.

Would you like to nudge inactive clients or find new clients? Then our new summer special for items over 150g is a great choice. Get in touch with us.

1Only valid with special-offer agreement from 1 July to 31 August 2025. This offer cannot be combined with other discounts.

The 25% summer discount on postage for items sent using the Info.Mail Advertising Plus product is available from 1 July 2025 until 31 August 2025 (final posting date), provided the following conditions are met:

- Each individual item must weigh at least 150 grams, and

- More than 20,000 items must be sent.

To benefit from the summer discount promotion, a special-offer agreement must be concluded, and the corresponding contract number must be stated in the posting list. The discount applies to the postage of a maximum of 200,000 items during the promotional period. The discount may be claimed either directly by customers or indirectly via a service provider.

The summer promotion cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. In particular, revenue generated during this promotion will not count towards any other discount schemes or bonus programmes. If existing customers take part in the summer promotion, their current agreement will be temporarily suspended for the duration of participation.

Austrian Post reserves the right to verify whether all conditions for the summer discount have been met. In cases of non-compliance, Austrian Post reserves the right to retroactively charge the difference in accordance with the applicable Info.Mail Advertising General Terms and Conditions and the Info.Mail Advertising Product and Price Overview (GTC Advertising Mail – Austrian Post; version dated 01.01.2025).

For more information about Info.Mail Advertising Plus, visit post.at/infomail-werbung.

Info.Mail Advertising explained!

Would you like to learn more about our product Info.Mail Advertising?
In our business blog, we explain why we had to make some adjustments to the product and provide answers to the main questions about posting Info.Mail Advertising and Info.Mail Public items.

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Rates

Rate overview, Info.Mail Advertising (available in German only)

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For detailed information about our product Info.Mail Advertising, please see "GTC - Info.Mail", "Product and rate overview - Info.Mail Advertising" and "Special conditions - machine processability".

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Downloads

Product information, Info.Mail Advertising (available in German only)

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Free additional service - digital expansion (available in German only)

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Shipping documents

Posting list, Info.Mail Classic (available in German only)

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Posting list, Info.Mail Plus (available in German only)

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Bundle label, Info.Mail Advertising (available in German only)

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Bundle label, Info.Mail Advertising (available in German only)

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Franking impression, round seal

Info.Mail Advertising franking impression, round stamp (available in German only)

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Info.Mail Advertising franking impression, round stamp Zip (available in German only)

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Posting

Overview of posting locations (available in German only)

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Service locations for posting large volumes (available in German only)

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List of logistics centres and opening hours (available in German only)

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Item design

Correct addressing (available in German only)

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