Postal Partners

"There's two different parts to a mailing operation," says Barron. "There's bulk mail, and then there's everything else."

Everything else, he says, "is almost entirely a burden." But bulk mail is pulling in a neat profit for the St. Paul, Minn., shop.

With three full-time employees and two more "as needed" handling the mail, Barron says his facility's mail room can do anything any bulk mailing house can handle.