[Mpls] Junk Mail - A Minneapolis Problem?

[dyna]

Being that I move mail, junk and otherwise, by the trailer load I thought I'd weigh in on this.

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From: Robert Schmid
Subject: [Mpls] Junk Mail - A Minneapolis Problem


For 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.

The metro areas biggest mailer is one we lost... Japs Olson, now located in St.Louis Park. They have always put out several trailer loads of mail a day. They left the Northside largely out of fear of what the vibration and dust from the Kondirator would do to their high quality printing equipment.

In the "A's" of mailing services, I find:


Absolute Mail Services Inc
3238 Washington Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN  55412
612-588-6480

	Nothing a minivan can't handle

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Accessability Inc
360 Hoover Street Northeast
Minneapolis, MN  55413
612-331-5958

A sheltered sweatshop- the kind of place I walk into and find people less disabled then me doing the same work I do- except they're getting minimum wage and I'm getting union scale. Occasionally cranks out less than a trailer load.

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Ace Mailing
1600 Marshall Street Northeast
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-623-4281
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Action Mailing Services
Minneapolis, MN 55401 952-949-0441
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Advanced Mailing Systems
2525 Nevada Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55427
763-545-7130
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ASAP Mailing Services
8852 Wentworth Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55420
952-886-8969
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Automated Mailing Corporation
1226 Linden Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
612-333-4477

	None of these even merits a step van.

and by the way isn't the largest mailer from the Minneapolis Post
Office the Billy Graham Evangelical Association?

Maybe back in the '70s and earlier- old timers at the Post Office tell me they used to put out a trailer load every hour or so back then. They put out a trailer load once or twice a week now.

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.

Yes, the above list and Don Samuels' campaign ignores Impact printing and mailing, a union printer on the Northside that produces a couple trailer loads a day. Impact continues to expand on the Northside and provides living wage jobs to a large and diverse workforce.

If Don Samuels had any "authentic community values" he would have taken his printing and mailing work to Impact or another local union printer. Strange, haven't heard much from Don's campaign lately- perhaps he's abandoning the campaign in hopes of winning back DFL support for a 5th Ward run in 2005?

Sorry, I hate to let a few facts get in the way of a good rant.

	Amen!

		Dyna Sluyter, Union Proud in Hawthorne

Terrell Brown
Loring Park
terrell at terrellbrown dot org

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