Own the card or share it
Direct Mail Postcards for Garage door repair
Own the whole 5,000-home card from $4,399 and ship in about 3 weeks, or split the card and take the only garage door repair slot on it.
A broken spring is a 10pm emergency. The card on the fridge beats whoever the homeowner can find on Google in three panicked minutes.
Own the whole card
$4,399
5,000 homes, about $0.88 a door. The whole front, edge to edge, nobody else on the card.
Or share it
$349 to $599
One garage door repair slot per card, set by slot position and how many homes the drop reaches. Nobody else in your trade is on it.
Solo ship window
3 weeks
A solo drop gets its mail date at checkout. A shared card mails once the zone fills.
Why postcards work for garage door repair
Garage door repair is a classic emergency trade. A broken torsion spring or a dead opener happens suddenly, usually inconveniently, and usually when the homeowner is already running late. The decision is made in minutes, not hours. A category-exclusive postcard on the fridge is the only local presence Google Ads cannot dislodge in that moment.
Pricing in this trade is clean and repeatable, which makes postcard offers easy to design: a spring, an opener and a full door are three known jobs with three known starting prices. Put your own starting price on the card, because a specific number is what makes a homeowner call rather than shop. Exclusivity on the route means they are not looking at three postcards with similar prices, they have one trusted answer.
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Questions before you buy
How much does garage door repair direct mail cost?
Two ways to buy. Own the whole card, from the smallest size up: $1,399 for about 1,000 homes, $2,299 for about 2,000 homes, or $4,399 for about 5,000 homes. Every size gives you the entire front of the card, edge to edge, with no co-advertisers anywhere on it. Share the card instead and one category-exclusive slot runs $349 to $599, set by the slot position and how many homes the drop reaches. You see the exact price before you pay.
When does the postcard mail?
A solo card mails within 3 weeks of purchase, on the date shown in your order. A shared card mails once 9 of 12 slots on it are taken. Nothing is charged before that, and LocalAd publishes no estimate of how long a zone takes to get there, because no zone has got there yet. You see the live slot count for the zone before you pay.
Will a competitor be on the same card?
No. A solo card is yours alone, with no co-advertisers of any kind. A shared card runs one business per category, so once you take the slot, no other business in your trade is on that card.
Is it available in my ZIP?
Solo runs in any US ZIP with residential mail delivery. Some ZIPs are PO boxes only, or belong to a single business or a military base. Those have no carrier routes, so there is nothing to mail. Type your ZIP at localad.io/solo and a zone opens on the spot, so there is nothing to wait for. Shared cards run in neighborhoods where a zone is filling.