INC NEWS - Prohibit Unrequested Phone Books?

[kjj1@duke.edu]

And I've called and asked to be put on a list not to receive them. Although 
they assured me I was on the list, I still got two of the damn books this 
week.
Kelly

--On Friday, November 18, 2005 4:22 PM -0500 TheOcean1 at aol.com wrote:

>
> Nancy
>
>  I applaud your calling them to express your displeasure. However, even
> if many of did so, I doubt they'd stop.
>  It's due to their income being based on the number of folks reached.
> When they sell the ads, if they bragged that it would get to 40,000
> homes, the ad would sell for one price.  If the circulation were 80,000,
> the ad price would nearly double.
>  That might explain why the three on your lawn! Would make a great
> newspaper article, to get to the advertisers, and ask them how many folks
> "they think" they are reaching.
>  Since three on one lawn creates the perception that the phone book
> company has inflated it's circulation figures, this might cause them to
> avoid that perception.
>  And if one on my lawn is freedom of speech, then the other two are pure
> litter.
> IMHO
>
> Bill