Lob vs. Postal

Lob

Lob

3 Reviews and Ratings

Postal

Postal

14 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Lob	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Lob in San Francisco provides the building blocks for developers to automate offline correspondences. Enterprise companies use Lob’s suite of APIs to mail fully dynamic and personalized customer communications with print media. Lob also provides insight into deliverability with piece-by-piece tracing and a proprietary Print Delivery Network to streamline production across fully redundant nodes all over the country.	$260 per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
Postal	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	Founded in 2020 in San Luis Obispo, California, Postal is a Global Offline Engagement Platform that serves over 600 B2B customers like Yelp, Cisco Meraki, Seismic, and Fivetran. Postal helps customers to create meaningful and impactful human connections with prospects, partners, customers, and employees.	N/A

Pricing

Lob

Postal

Editions & Modules

Startup Plan: $260
per month 3 users & Up to 3,000 monthly mailings
Growth Plan: $550
per month 5 users & Up to 6,000 monthly mailings
Developer Plan: Free
1 user & Up to 500 monthly mailings
Enterprise Plan: Contact Sales

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Lob	Postal
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Lob	Postal
Considered Both Products	Lob SS Salvatore (Sal) Salpietro Chief Experience Officer Chose Lob Google Maps API and Loqate (GBG Matchcode360) Incentivized Helpful? JE JJ Englert Founder & Product Manager Chose Lob LOB was one of the most affordable options when searching for alternatives. They've performed well to date as well. Incentivized Helpful?	Postal Damian Szczerba Customer Marketing Manager Chose Postal Sendoso - complex, more geared to ENT companies, longer implementation/setup Alyce - Great for small mom and pop shops, too small of a solution for where planful currently is, great fit for under 200 employees Reachback - Great for Global campaigns, less intuitive than Postal, UX … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postal Postal.io is cheaper than Sendoso and still meets the technical requirements. Reach desk has more capabilities. They can print prospects' names on whiskey bottles. Incentivized Helpful? NL Nicole Lewis Office Manager Chose Postal (we didn't research any other products that I'm aware of) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Postal Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility … Incentivized Helpful? Emily Popson Director of Demand Generation, Web Strategy & Customer Marketing Chose Postal Postal.io gives you everything the others do without the white glove price tag. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
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Enterprises	PFL Direct Mail Platform Score 9.0 out of 10	PFL Direct Mail Platform Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Lob	Postal
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	1.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Lob	Postal
Likelihood to Recommend	Lob is working well for batched or scheduled jobs where timing isn't as critical. For items that need to be sent quickly, it's still faster to manually produce. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	If you are a small or growing team that understands experiential, ABM, and gift marketing strategies and how to leverage them, Postal.io gives you everything you need with moderate CSM coverage, without the white glove price tags of similar solutions like Sendoso. Incentivized Emily Popson Director of Demand Generation, Web Strategy & Customer Marketing Read full review
Pros	Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing Printing and mailing documents automatically over API Incentivized Salvatore (Sal) Salpietro Chief Experience Officer Read full review	Integrates with our swag library at Swagup. Offers an excellent and growing library of direct mail/gifting options. Provides outstanding support and does a great job at their product marketing. Incentivized Michael Shearer Senior Director, Digital Strategy & Innovation Read full review
Cons	Speed of mail production Additional options for mail types (envelopes, postcards, etc.) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Navigation -Took time to find custom hyper links. Finding items - Can be hard to find where items are on platform. Layout could be better. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We get so much value out of the platform that I can't find any legitimate or logical reason why we wouldn't renew. Their team has been a pleasure to work with. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	I love the tool, and my team relies on it heavily. We just completed our quarterly review and were able to track every single dollar spent Damian Szczerba Customer Marketing Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Incentivized Salvatore (Sal) Salpietro Chief Experience Officer Read full review	Postal.io was a more budget-friendly option than the alternatives I considered. We knew our gifting budget wouldn't be huge so we were willing to go with something less established in order to make sure we had as much budget left over as possible. We also like the flexibility with Postal.io that we could add almost anything to their marketplace if we could find it available online. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Helped us reduce cost on product being sent to addresses that were invalid. Incentivized JJ Englert Founder & Product Manager Read full review	Increased Productivity: It has taken a huge headache out of keeping and maintaining what swag is on hand has saved a LOT of company time easier to reach out to potential clients Incentivized NL Nicole Lewis Office Manager Read full review
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