INC NEWS - Prohibit Unrequested Phone Books?

[Melissa Rooney]

I agree with you on every front, Kelly. And I think
that we should be able to prevent delivery of unwanted
phone books, while still maintaining the ability of
companies to reach those who still use the yellow
pages, since those people wouldn't opt out. Is it true
that all business adverts in the yellow pages are also
available online? I presume that is the case, and if
so, then those of us opting out of the program clearly
find these companies via the same procedure using the
yellow pages online. Notifying the companies that we
want to opt out of receiving hard-copies of the
yellowpages, should only SAVE them money (in terms of
production costs). As long as they pass these savings
on to those who advertise with them, it seems to me
that everybody kicks a goal.

Just my two cents.
--Melissa Rooney
301 Spring Garden Drive
Fairfield Neighborhood

--- kjj1 at duke.edu wrote:

> 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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