What are some Physical Mailing Services with APIs? (pdf to delivered letter)

Question

I'm writing a bill generation service for a client, and I would like to program my self out of the most time consuming part of the process. It goes something like this.

print X number of pdfs and envelopes, stuff envelops, stamp, and bring to post office

It would only be a few hundred bills monthly to start but it could grow. I'm sure some sort of service exists that provides an api to deliver a printed pdf to an address but I can't find one. I think part of my problem is discovering the terminology to google with.

Have you ever used any services like this?

UPDATE
I've found some helpful search terms, but no good results yet.

Mail Processing Services
Document Processing Services

I should also add that I'm located in nyc and am looking for a US based solution.

Answer 1

I have no experience in such things, but it sounds like you're looking for something like this: http://www.billingpros.com/

For what it's worth, the magic Google keywords I used were "automatic postal billing". ;)

Answer 2

I found a local shipping center who will receive pdf's via email and send them out and bill me for a negotiated nominal fee. A service with an api doesn't seem to exist.

Answer 3

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