INC NEWS - Prohibit Unrequested Phone Books?

[kjj1@duke.edu]

Randy--The most recent one dumped at my door was the Talking Phone Book. 
And I'm not persuaded by your recycling cost analysis--it costs us in 
natural resources to produce something that is never used, it costs 
manufacturing cost--and the pollution costs associated with paper 
production, and the pollution costs associated with driving around 
delivering unsolicted and unwanted items--all of which we pay for in ozone 
and poor air quality, plus the costs of recycling them.

Plus--if I need to know a phone number in raleigh or chapel hill--can look 
them up online--and mapquest for directions, as do more people every day. 
So the need for these massive tomes is declining. So it's way more than 
$1.49 for Tidewater to drive by my house.

Kelly J.

--On Friday, November 18, 2005 10:45 PM -0500 RW Pickle 
<randy at 27beverly.com> wrote:

> I can't say this for sure because I do not know which books you received
> this week, but they are different. One has Durham/Chapel Hill and the
> other has Durham/RTP. There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive Triangle
> phone book company. Something like "One Book". I think I even have one
> that has Cary/RTP/Raleigh. All of these books come in handy from time to
> time.
>
> And it really doesn't cost us any more to recycle them. Tidewater Fiber
> (our recycling contractor) gets paid by the houses they drive by. If you
> set nothing out, they still get paid. If you set out 500 phone books, it's
> all on them and we the citizens get our dollars worth (I think it's
> actually something like $1.49 per house/per week; regardless if there is a
> pickup at each one or not).
>
> My gripe is that these folks do not have enough sense to see that I have a
> circular driveway. So I always get double the number of books delivered as
> I should.
>
> RWP
> Forest Hills
>
>
>> 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
>>
>
>
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