September 30, 2008
Following up his excellent mission to return an unrequested phone book to Verizon, Ed Kohler published a Yellow Pages slideshow called “Dealing With the Opt-Out Movement” (PDF). In the slideshow, the Yellow Pages catalogs their “wins” in preventing states from allowing consumers to opt out of receiving the phone book.
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September 16, 2008
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.
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