City of Duluth Quarterly
Duluthians should find the first issue of City of Duluth Quarterly in their mailboxes today, Dec. 10. It’s part of Mayor Don Ness’ plan to improve city communications. The magazine is produced by city staff and New Ventures Publishing Corp.
New Ventures is owned by former Duluth News Tribune publisher Marti Buscaglia and also publishes Duluth-Superior Magazine.
Paul Lundgren, who are you? Why are you always so informed? I must be out of the loop.
He’s basically a superhero on the local news and history front.
I wonder if we can opt in for an email version so as to not ‘waste’ paper, add to the footprint etc. Time to go green City of Dull-uth.
Or even just read it online.
All I did in this case was regurgitate information from a news release issued by the city.
Duluth launches quarterly newsletter for residents
But I suppose I was quite heroic at doing so.
The news release does note that the magazine will be available online, but since it’s going to be mailed to you anyway you won’t be saving any trees by reading it on a screen.
Ah, too bad.
And thank you.
I didn’t receive my copy in the mail today! Boo! If Marti Buscaglia and her team are behind this publication, it’s going to look quite polished.
I didn’t receive one today either. Since it’s Christmas card season, perhaps it will take an extra day for the USPS to handle this.
Paul, you are right on. Periodicals get pushed to the side during the holidays in favor of first-class mail. Kudos to Marti!
Duluth-Superior Magazine has a very limited circulatioin to “certain” zip codes unless you suscribe, so maybe the Quarterly is using DSM’s mail list.
TopOfTheHillMan, I think you might be confusing Duluth-Superior Magazine with the Duluth News Tribune‘s Living North magazine. As far as I know, Duluth-Superior Magazine only mails to people who subscribe. Living North will tend to send out random freebies to different zones to entice subscriptions.
The season doesn’t have anything to do with why this didn’t get delivered today. Even though it’s busy, all the mail that’s supposed to be delivered gets delivered. My guess is that there’s some sort of confusion somewhere along the line between the mail and this press release. The bulk-mail system is extremely complex.
Um. I’m not sure who Piglet is, but that’s wrong.
Periodicals are delivered as first class mail. Third class mail is slated for delivery in measured stages throughout the week. Often third class mail is dated, to be delivered on a particular date or range of dates, for example if it is an advertisement or catalog for a particular sale.
My guess is that if this magazine is to be delivered to everyone in the city, it’s being sent third class.
The DNT said it went to media yesterday and will be delivered to homes today. I used to work for a nonprofit organization in NC that sent out a lot of mailings. I was in charge of the mailings — Barrett is entirely correct, the bulk mail system — esp. when it includes recipients in a lot of different zip codes and more than one state — is *incredibly* complex.
As long as we’re on the subject of glitzy area publications …
to the tune of “American Woman” ….
Area woman get warm from me Area Woman Mama dont let me freeze
Do come Shoveling around my door I Do want to see your face Dry and cracked no more
I got no more important Things to do Then spend my time Blowing Snow with you
Area Woman Get warm from me Area woman Mama let me be
Do come Shoveling around my door I Don’t want to see you freeze No more
Bentleyville Can hypnotize Go and sparkle Someone else’s eyes
Now woman I said get warm Area Woman Listen what I say
Area Woman I said get warm Area woman Listen what I say
Do come Shoveling around my door
I Don’t want to freeze your face No more
I Do need your snow machines
I Don’t need your hillside scenes
Bentleyville can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else’s eyes
Now woman, get warm from me
Area woman, mama dont let me freeze
Go, gotta get warm, gotta get warm
Now go go go
gonna sauna you, woman
gonna sauna you, woman
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
You’re no good for me
I’m no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye.
Tell you what I’m gonna do
You know I’m gonna sauna
You know I’m gonna go
You know I’m gonna sauna
You know I’m gonna go, woman
I’m gonna sauna, woman
Goodbye, Area Woman
I love find and relace
After all our speculation about the postal service, the city announced today:
“The newsletter will not be mailed directly to households as previously reported, but is available in hard copy at local restaurants, retail outlets, or grocery stores.”
So, there you have it.
Of course, you can also read it online.
By the way, I picked up a copy at Beaner’s Central and noticed one of the articles has an interesting phrase in its lead.
Wow, what an unpleasant way to read something online. I’m not usually a fan of PDFs for online reading (I prefer HTML), but this time I’m glad there’s a link to download it as a PDF. I wish the city provided a direct link to the PDF, though, so I wouldn’t have had to load the Flash version just to click the download button. (Duluth Superior magazine’s page announcing the magazine has a simple link to a lower-resolution PDF version, though this version—despite having an easier-to-read cover—has some minor graphical glitches.)