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About Charnstrom Company

Charnstrom is a manufacturer and supplier of mail carts, mail sorters, canvas bags, commercial mailboxes and plastic totes. We also carry residential mailboxes for business or consumer use.

We are your manufacturer and supplier of all the products you need to organize your mailroom and office. Mail carts for distributing and sorting, mail sorters for processing and organizing office mail, locking commercial mailboxes for security of private mail, canvas mailbags for bulk mail and shipping and residential mailboxes for curb side delivery. Our canvas mailbags (with or without locks) come in a variety of sizes, color and styles. We also carry mail totes in different colors, similar to plastic totes from the post office for mail collection.

Charnstrom has 50 styles of mail carts and wire carts, (with or without locking tops) 100s of modular mail sorters in many different sizes, and canvas bags ready to ship in 48 hours. We also have a complete line of commercial mailboxes for indoor or outdoor use, in steel or aluminum all with security locking doors. These commercial mailboxes can be fitted into walls or stand-alone. Our residential mailboxes come in different styles and design and can have locks for security of mail.

Charnstrom has been supplying mailroom furniture and equipment to a variety of businesses, organizations and government agencies has been the sole business of the W. A. Charnstrom Company since 1959 when Wendell A. Charnstrom founded it.

Prior to starting the Charnstrom Company, Wendell Charnstrom was a salesman for Pitney-Bowes and saw that his customers had a need for mailroom furniture and equipment to help them more efficiently sort and deliver their mail. As a result, Charnstrom developed a product line of four mail carts and two mailbag holders and began selling them via a four-page direct mail catalog.

In August 1964, the company was sold to Charles E. Johnson, former general manager for the Kol Company, a metal fabricator that had done business with Charnstrom. Since the Charnstrom name was already established and well recognized in the mailroom industry, Charlie decided to continue selling the products under the Charnstrom name.

Greg Hedlund, current president of W. A. Charnstrom, joined the company in 1978, bringing with him visions for growth through new product development and marketing strategies. Together with its dedicated employees, the W. A. Charnstrom Company has expanded its market to office organizers and packaging systems. Currently the product line consists of more than 800 products including mail carts, mail sorters, and several styles of mailroom tables and mail bags, all sold through its 100 page direct mail catalog.

The W. A. Charnstrom Company started out of a 2,000 square foot facility in downtown Minneapolis. Currently, the company is located in Shakopee in its own 50,000 square foot facility.

In addition to being the leader in the industry for providing innovative mail room solutions, the W. A. Charnstrom Company is well known for its outstanding customer service thanks to its dedicated employees.