Chicago · Shared postcard pilot
One Chicago postcard. Eight local businesses. One per category.
A shared postcard for up to eight noncompeting Chicago-area businesses. Your spot gets your offer designed in, its own QR or coupon code, and a redemption report, so you can be in local mailboxes without running a whole mailing on your own.
- $750 per spot (proposed)
- Up to eight businesses
- One per category
$750 per spot (proposed). No payment now. We confirm the route, household count, print and postage quote, category availability, and mailing date before charging.
Local offers from Chicago-area businesses
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- Spot 4Example categoryCode EX-04
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- Spot 7Example categoryCode EX-07
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Mailing panel
- Up to 8 businesses
- One per category
- Each with its own code
In short
How can a Chicago business get its offer on a shared neighborhood postcard?
Request a spot on FXXK Agency’s shared postcard pilot for up to eight noncompeting Chicago-area businesses, proposed at $750 per spot per mailing. Each spot includes offer design, its own QR or coupon code, and a redemption report based on the scans and codes that can be counted. Nothing is charged until the route, household count, print and postage quote, category, and mailing date are confirmed.
- Proposed price
- $750 per spot, per mailing
- On each postcard
- Up to eight noncompeting businesses, one per category
- Each spot gets
- A placement, offer design, a QR or coupon code, and a redemption report
- Spots
- Confirmed after review, one business per category
- Before any charge
- Route, household count, print and postage quote, category, and mailing date
- Reviewed by
- Lucas Mora, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer
What a spot includes
Your offer, your code, your own report.
Every business on the postcard gets the same four things, built around one offer and one way to count the response.
A spot on the shared postcard
Your business on a postcard shared with up to seven other Chicago-area businesses, none of them in your category.
Offer design
Tell us the offer you want to run. We write and design it into your spot so it reads clearly next to the others, and you review it before it prints.
Your own QR or coupon code
Your spot gets a code that belongs to your business alone, so a response to your offer can be told apart from everyone else’s on the card.
A redemption report
After the mailing, we report what the data can count for your spot: scans of your QR code and redemptions of your coupon code.
Example business
Example category
Example offer: 10% off your first visit
Example terms: one per household. Expiration date here.
What the redemption report can count, and what it can’t.
The report uses the data that’s available. Codes and scans can be counted, so that’s what it reports. Anything that happens without the code stays invisible to it, and we say so.
Counted
- Scans of your QR code, which points to a tracked link
- Redemptions of your coupon code, as your register, checkout, booking system, or team records them
Not counted
- People who saw the card and visited or called without using the code
- Whether someone who redeemed was a new customer or would have come in anyway
- Revenue or profit: a redemption isn’t the same as either
How the pilot works
From your request to your redemption report.
Nothing is charged until step three is done and every detail of the mailing is confirmed with you.
- 1
Request a spot
Tell us your business, its category and address, and the offer you’d like to run. No payment is taken, and sending the form doesn’t hold a spot.
No payment
- 2
We review your request
Each request is reviewed so the postcard carries one business per category and every offer is one the business can honor. Spots are confirmed after review.
Review
- 3
We confirm the details with you
The route, the household count, the print and postage quote, your category, and the mailing date. Nothing is charged until all five are confirmed.
Before any charge
- 4
We design your spot
Your offer is designed into your spot with your own QR or coupon code. You review your spot before the postcard prints.
Design and code
- 5
The postcard mails
The shared postcard goes out on the confirmed date to the confirmed route.
Mailing
- 6
You get your redemption report
We report the scans and code redemptions that can be counted for your spot, and say plainly what the data can’t show.
Report
Why every spot gets a code
Mail you can count. Proof from a separate campaign.
A code turns a postcard into something you can measure. Here’s a published direct mail result from FXXK’s work, and how to read it next to this pilot.
Separate campaign · North Bergen, New Jersey
550+
first-month redemptions from 20,000 mailers
Reported by FXXK · Counted from redeemed coupons.
HudHaus · Dispensary direct mail
FXXK reports 550+ first-month redemptions from 20,000 mailers for HudHaus, a New Jersey dispensary.
- A separate campaign: one New Jersey dispensary’s own mailer, not a shared postcard.
- Response was counted from redeemed coupons. Each Chicago spot gets its own code for the same reason: so response can be counted.
- A different market, category, and format. It isn’t a forecast for this postcard.
Planning a mailer for one business instead? That’s our direct mail marketing service.
Pricing
A proposed price. Confirmed before you pay.
$750 per spot, per mailing, is the proposed price for the pilot. Before anything is charged, we confirm five things with you.
- The routeWhere in the Chicago area the postcard is mailed.
- The household countHow many households that route reaches. We don’t estimate it before the route is set.
- The print and postage quoteWhat printing and postage cost for this mailing.
- Category availabilityThat your category is open on this postcard, so no competitor shares it.
- The mailing dateWhen the postcard is scheduled to mail.
Why you won’t see dates or open spots here
No route, household count, mailing date, or number of open spots is published for the pilot, and nothing on this page is a reservation. Spots are confirmed after review, one business per category, and every detail is confirmed with each business before anything is charged.
Request a spot
Tell us about your business and your offer.
Share your category, your address, and the offer you’d like to run. We review every request and confirm the details with you before anything is charged.
- No payment is taken through this form
- Sending it requests a spot. It doesn’t hold one
- One business per category on each postcard
Requests are assigned to Lucas Mora, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer.
Questions
Before you request a spot.
The proposed price, what’s confirmed before you pay, categories, the redemption report, and who reviews requests.
What is the Chicago neighborhood mailer?
A shared postcard for up to eight noncompeting businesses in the Chicago area. Each business gets a spot on the card with its offer designed in, its own QR or coupon code, and a redemption report after the mailing. It’s a pilot, proposed at $750 per spot per mailing.
How much does a spot cost?
$750 per spot, per mailing. That’s the proposed price for the pilot, not a final quote. Nothing is charged until the route, household count, print and postage quote, your category, and the mailing date are confirmed.
Does the price include printing and postage?
The print and postage quote is one of five things we confirm with you before anything is charged, along with the route, the household count, your category, and the mailing date. You’ll know the confirmed terms for your spot before you pay.
Is my spot reserved when I send the form?
No. The form requests a spot. It doesn’t reserve one, and no payment is taken. Spots are confirmed after review, with one business per category on each postcard.
How many households will it reach, and when does it mail?
Neither is set yet. The route, the household count, and the mailing date are confirmed with you before anything is charged, and we don’t publish estimates before then.
Will a competitor be on the same postcard?
No. Each postcard has one business per category, so the businesses on it don’t compete with each other. Category availability is confirmed after review.
What does the redemption report include?
The counts the data supports for your spot: scans of your QR code, which points to a tracked link, and redemptions of your coupon code as your register, checkout, booking system, or team records them. It can’t count people who saw the card and came in or called without the code, and a redemption isn’t the same as a new customer, revenue, or profit.
Who designs the offer?
We do. You tell us the offer you want to run, and we design it into your spot with your own QR or coupon code. You review your spot before the postcard prints, and the offer has to be one your business can honor.
Have you run direct mail before?
Yes. On a separate campaign, FXXK reports 550+ first-month redemptions from 20,000 mailers for HudHaus, a New Jersey dispensary, counted from redeemed coupons. That was one business’s own mailer, not a shared postcard, and it isn’t a forecast for this one.
Read the HudHaus case studyCan you guarantee results?
No. Response depends on the offer, the route, the timing, and the market. Results from other campaigns, including HudHaus, describe what those campaigns produced and aren’t a forecast for this postcard.
Can I get a mailer just for my business instead?
Yes. That’s a standard direct mail campaign, planned around your own market, offer, and budget, with tracking built into the piece.
See Direct Mail MarketingDo you work with other Chicagoland businesses?
Yes. Chicago and Chicagoland are a primary market for FXXK Agency. This shared postcard pilot is for businesses in the Chicago area.
See Chicago and ChicagolandWho reviews requests?
Lucas Mora, Founder & Chief Marketing Officer. Every request is reviewed before a spot is confirmed, and we reply by email.
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Case study
HudHaus
A North Bergen dispensary built from launch: Meta ads, social, video, and a direct mail campaign with more than $100,000 in reported first month associated sales from $20,000.
Put your offer on the Chicago postcard.
$750 per spot (proposed). No payment now. We confirm the route, household count, print and postage quote, category availability, and mailing date before charging.
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