Lob
Programmatically send physical mail and verify addresses
Lob launched on December 6, 2013 with 106 votes, #82 of 927 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
What it does
Lob is an API for the offline world. With our print & mail API, you can seamlessly print and mail individually customized letters, postcards, and checks. Our address verification API, lets you verify, auto-correct, standardize, and enrich physical addresses with less than 5 minutes of setup.
Automate and personalize direct mail at scale while our nationwide print network speeds delivery, controls postage costs, and keeps every send compliant.
Lob is the only direct mail platform with Postal IQ advanced routing, printing and delivery infrastructure, bringing predictability to postage costs and getting your mail to its destination faster and more securely. Lob combines advanced campaign tools, award-winning APIs, Postal IQ routing, and our nationwide Print Delivery Network. Together, they speed up delivery while giving you the features and visibility you need – from campaign to mailbox. Lob’s Postal IQ routing intelligence chooses the most efficient USPS entry point for every mailpiece, helping your mail reach mailboxes quickly and cost-effectively by working in step with USPS operations. We can have a mail piece printed and in…from lob.com
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TLDR: We built out an API for sending handwritten letters at https://www.handwrite.io/handwritten-notes-api Quick backstory: I was helping a small moving company build out some marketing automation as a side gig. We were ingesting housing data and as soon as a house went up for sale, we'd use lob.com to send a direct mail postcard letting the home owner know we'd love their business. But the postcards didn't convert well, and were super cliche so I went searching for something that might feel a little more personal. That's when I met my cofounder, Dan, here on Hacker News!…
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