Fair enough, but some of these businesses serve legitimate mailing purposes instead of or in addition to Junk Mail. When I searched Qwestdex for Advertising Direct Mail in Minneapolis I found only 7, not 47. Perhaps the other 40 are in the suburbs or only have a phone/mail forwarding presence?
But the point still stands - with regard to mailers from outside Minneapolis, they are exploiting public services without paying for them and our local junk mailers are doing the same in thousands of other communities.
As for Billy Graham - since they have sent me nothing, I can assume they are not buying my name off of mailing lists from others. I can hope that they are only communicating with people with whom they have, in fact, established a relationship.
And to use at least some of your own words;
"So although some may not like it, drug dealers and prostitutes are located in Minneapolis, do pay taxes [(at least sales taxes)] in Minneapolis and do provide jobs in Minneapolis."
Does this mean I should accept drugs and prostitution because it contributes to the economy?
Finally, I might be more willing to pay attention to political and charitable mail if I didn't get so much other commercial crap.
Robert Schmid
Central
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Terrell Brown wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Schmid Subject: [Mpls] Junk Mail - A Minneapolis ProblemFor the most part these junk mailers are not located in Minneapolis, do not pay taxes in Minneapolis and do not provide jobs in Minneapolis. They use and exploit our public services without even BEING here. [TB] Ah contraire ... they are here. A quick search revealed these with addresses of "Minneapolis, MN" <snip> and by the way isn't the largest mailer from the Minneapolis Post Office the Billy Graham Evangelical Association? So although some may not like it, these mailers are located in Minneapolis, do pay taxes in Minneapolis and do provide jobs in Minneapolis. The entire list looks like lots of jobs ... many in North Minneapolis. Sorry, I hate to let a few facts get in the way of a good rant.
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