Note that Midwest Publishing Inc. is a service business offering several types of services. One of the services they offer is telemarketing and donations collection with bent towards Political, Non-Profit, and Charitable business sectors. Unfortunately I was on the butt end of the way this business makes call out to to potential donation targets. Fortunately for you the Yelp reader I don't just donate, I investigate. Similar to other scummy organizations that will make calls on the behalf of any business, Midwest Publishing employs processes and techniques that attempt to blindside in the effort get someone on the phone. After they get you on the phone they hard sell the topic of the call without much regard to the person they are calling, or the business they were retain to hawk. Their shady tactics include: - No caller ID or calling party number sent during the call. The calling ANI is simply blank. - No calling party name display (CPND) sent during the call. The calling name is either blank or is reported as "Out of Area" on your phone. This is usually due to the Caller ID / ANI not being used. - Robodialer used for calls. Questionable for many use today except for pre-authorized calls, or community safety alert calls. Both of which are not the business of Midwest Publishing. - Voice detection on their Robodialer not compliant with Federal and State laws. The amount of time to detect the target of the call was more than two seconds after answer. In my call the time about 13 seconds of saying hello. Either their system is purposefully setup to break Federal and State laws, or their technology is older than dirt. Either way it's not something recommend for any modern and reputable call center. - Non-compliance with state laws requiring them to inform the about call recording. California is a two-party state. At no time in the beginning of the call was their a recorded announcement or a information from the agent I was connected to about call recording. No beeps played either. Yet the call was a donation call with the intent to collect funds and record the call to prove my authorization. - Call back numbers requested and given by both the agent and the supervisor on the call did not route to any working number for either the charity campaign, or Midwest Publishing. - Of the potential donation you might make to a charity, only 20% of anything you give will go to the organization that has contacted Midwest Publishing to make the call on their behalf. - The makes a major point of their pitch as a contractor servicing political, non-profit, and charity businesses . This allows Midwest Publishing to ignore numbers on the Federal National Do Not Call list. Perhaps a even to the point of calling your number that is on the DNC list during your meal time or family time. A note about the lack of Caller ID / ANI. This lack of sending ANI is usually due to the contracting organization requesting that no number is sent. A scummy tactic for any business to use. In most cases a reputable call center company would at least send their own ANI if one was not specified by the contracting business. To my last point I did ask Midwest Publishing to place me on their internal Do Not Call list for any calls from Midwest Publishing or the businesses that retain their services. Given their calling tactics I am not really counting on them to honor my request. Based on all point stated above you have to ask yourself just what kind of shady political, non-profit, and charity campaign calling jobs Midwest Publishing would take on? Not any that I would like to receive calls from that is for sure. I heartily recommend you avoid Midwest Publishing for any reason as a customer or as a calling target. If you are a potential employee then ask yourself if you soul, spirit, and morals can swim in the murky river of slimy call center tactics. Have a good look in the mirror agent Michelle and Supervisor Jennifer. Please don't call me again in the future. read more

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They called me at around 9pm and woke my toddler up. I'm glad they gave me the name (even if it was a robot). Call was listed as restricted and have received a call from these guys multiple times after 8pm. I have several phone recordings of them. Please let there be some prosecutions against this group read more

As Chris mentioned, this is a scam fake charity collection operation that stalks people and is listed as one of the worst charity operations ever, with only about 15% of the money they solicit going to the actual charity. I can't believe they are allowed to do business. They call my Grandmother every day to harass her, and I asked them to stop and they laughed at me. Next time I am headed through AZ I plan on stopping by the organization to see what's so funny. read more

I am surprised they gave me the actual company name. I got a call while eating dinner on SUNDAY. It's against the law for telemarketer on Sundays. They were collecting donations for the California Narcotic Officers Association.which apparently gave them permission. That association is not a charity. It is a non-profit. Part of the MPI pitch is benefits for dead cops. They never say it's a charity. Therefore they are obliged to obey the Do Not Call list. Their bad luck is calling me. I sue telemarketers and make money. You can too! I keep a log of all calls to bring to court. Go to the CA Secretary of State (or the SOS in the state you live) to look up the company. In CA it is: businesssearch.sos.ca.gov yielding their identify & Agent of Service. C2495650 MIDWEST PUBLISHING - DN, INC Write a letter demanding at least $500- for violating the DNC list. Ask for triple damages ($1,500-) for "knowingly and willfully" violating the Do Not Call law. It is on the FCC.gov web site. It will scare them more if you quote the law. They may not respond until you file suit in Small Claims Court. When enough of us sue they will stop. Good luck. read more

Harassing calls come from this company. We are on DO NOT CALL LIST and they keep calling. They call daily and deep breathe.

The first time they called was yesterday from an unavailable number ask for my husband by name, I asked who was calling and he said his name is Derek Blake and that he was calling to ask a favor. When I started questioning his he hung up. He called again today only this time it was Phoenix, AZ. He used the same name and said he wanted to ask my husband a favor. I told him to hold on because we were curious about this so called favor. I gave the phone to my husband and Derek Blake hung up. That is when I called number to find out it was this company. Scammers! read more

I had an interview with this company. They have the computers call random numbers and have a computerized voice try to get people to donate money to fake charities. The people there were extremely rude, even the hiring manager seemed to have trouble focusing on one task and made inappropriate looks towards me. I don't think I could've run out the building fast enough. read more