There are few things I hate more than spam and junk mail. And of all the spam I get, the phone book is the worst. Nobody uses it, but Qwest, Verizon, YellowBook, and whoever else insist on tossing it into my front yard twice a year so they can inflate their circulation numbers.
Why is it legal for them to toss their crap onto my property? I don’t even have a land line, so even that tenuous connection to a service provider is absent.
The phone book is just as useless to me as the piles of credit card offers I get, but unlike the credit card offers, I can’t just run the phone book through the shredder.
I would love to do what Ed Kohler of The Deets did, but I would be mightily tempted to chuck the phone book through Verizon’s window instead of onto its front lawn:
Instead, I signed up to opt out of phone book delivery at YellowPagesGoesGreen.org, hopefully once and for all.
I filled out my address, and they will notify my local phone book spammers that I do not want to receive the phone book any more. Now let’s see if it works.
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My city has a no solicitation ordinance as long as I have a sign posted. I have often considered what the phone companies and the city would do if I pursued them concerning the phone books they insist on leaving on my door step.
I do not have a home phone any longer, so they can’t claim that I am an existing customer. It can only be considered solicitation.
-Tim