Tim Vorpagel

Fulfillment Associate
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I attended Waukesha County Technical College and received an associate degree as a Fire Protection Technician. I spent 30 years as a member of the West Allis Fire Department. In those 30 years, I spent 17 years in mid-to-upper-level management. In my final years before retirement, I was a Battalion Chief supervising 30 members. I also taught State certified Firefighter training at Waukesha County Technical College and Tactical and leadership training at Gateway Technical College for 25 years. My role as a part-time Fulfillment Associate is a completely different role for me compared to what I was doing in the Fire Service. A few differences are now I work only a few hours at a time rather than the 24-hour shifts I used to work, and now I also get to spend all my holidays with family.

When I am not at work, I enjoy spending time with family and friends. I enjoy Wisconsin professional sports, particularly Brewers, Bucks, and Packers. I have been interested in model railroading as a hobby since I was a young boy and I’m still involved with this hobby.

What would be your baseball walk out song?

Centerfield by John Fogerty

If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be?

I would have loved to have dinner with Bob Uecker. The stories that he could tell would be very interesting and entertaining.

Variable Data Best Practices

  • At the quoting stage of your project, please let us know how many fields of variable data your piece will have as this can affect pricing.
  • Data should be provided to us as an Excel spreadsheet with only the applicable data included.
  • Verbiage for variable data fields on artwork file should match up exactly with data fields on spreadsheet.
  • Spacing on artwork must allow for longest data entries. We recommend that your designer tests this in advance to confirm that the fields in the design can fit your longest pieces of data.

Postage Permits

We are happy to mail using a client’s USPS non-profit number. Here are a few best practices for this to go smoothly. Let our team know up front on the project so we can make sure to get the information we need right away. 

While our mail house does prefer to use their permit number for the mailing, we can use the client’s permit, If using their permit number, ensure there is enough postage to cover the mailing.

The information we need to in order to use a client’s nonprofit number includes the following:

  • CRID (customer registration ID)
  • Non-Profit Authorization Number (with USPS, not their nonprofit number for the university)
  • Non-profit indicia
  • Return address that is on file with USPS for the non-profit authorization number
  • Permit number

Formatting the Mailing List

Our account team will advise on specific requirements for your project’s mailing list.  We generally recommend these best practices to format the mailing list:
  • Send your data in a spreadsheet, saving it in the comma-separated values (CSV) format
  • International addresses must be separated from domestic addresses
  • Domestic addresses should at least contain data fields for “first name”, “last name”, “address 1”, “address 2”, “city”, “state” and “ZIP code”