Dropped by nine, folded by five, priced by the pound.
Seward and Longfellow · Minneapolis
Route days by street, and the programmes priced by weight.
Six programs
Every one priced by weight or by item, with the constraint stated next to it.
Wash, dry and fold
$1.85 a pound
No minimum
Weighed and priced in front of you at drop-off, so the number is agreed before anything is washed.
Same day
+$0.40 a pound
In by 9:00 am
Folded and ready by five. In after nine and it is ready the next afternoon.
Comforter or duvet
$28 each
Priced per item
King or queen, washed in the sixty pound machine. Down takes a full extra dry cycle.
Hang dry
+$0.60 a pound
Whole bag only
For anything that shrinks. Add a day, because it takes one.
Pickup and delivery
$8 a trip
$25 of service
Weekdays, on your street's route day. Free over $60.
Commercial linen account
$1.45 a pound
40 lb a week
Salons, restaurants, and short lets. Invoiced monthly, collected on a fixed day.
A dollar eighty-five a pound, no minimum, weighed on the counter scale while you stand there. Self-service machines from six in the morning until ten at night, every day of the year.
Your street has a day.
Pickup between eight and ten, delivery back between four and six the same day for wash-dry-fold, next day for hang dry.
Monday
Seward, north of Franklin
22nd to 27th Avenue, Milwaukee, Minnehaha, and the streets off Franklin.
Tuesday
Seward, south of Franklin
Riverside to 27th, Cedar, and everything down to the parkway.
Wednesday
Longfellow, north
Lake Street to 38th, between Hiawatha and the river.
Thursday
Longfellow, south
38th to 46th, between Hiawatha and the river. Includes Howe.
Friday
Commercial accounts, then anywhere
Linen accounts first thing, then any household on any street who missed their day.
The scale is on the counter, not in the back.
Your bag is weighed and priced while you are standing there. It takes twenty seconds and it is the reason nobody here has ever argued about a bill.