David Lazarus: Can junk mail be good?

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David Lazarus travels to the junk-mail heart of darkness: a cavernous processing center in South Los Angeles for a company called Service Mailers Inc.

Co-owner Marcy Clarke makes no apologies for being one of Southern California’s leading junk mailers.

Service Mailers employs about 45 people, paying most of them minimum wage and providing health benefits. Clarke argues that the recessionary decline in junk mail is bad for the economy. Read the rest of Lazarus’ column here.