Every month it seems I get a new phone book. In my house right now, I have
- The Talkiing Phone Book (doesn’t talk, it’s just like evey other phone book)
- The Community Phone Book
- Your Community Phone Book
- Verizon White Pages
- Verizon Yellow Pages
- Neighborhood Phone Directory
Yes, that’s right, even my neighborhood had to get in on the action and the civic league now produces a bound phone book of the entire neighborhood.
Most of the phone books are delivered to me in duplicates. I don’t know, maybe I do need multiple copies of thousands of phone numbers and worthless ads and just don’t realize it.
One time I actually caught the person delivering the phone books. I say “caught” because delivering this unwanted crap should be a crime. I “caught” the guy at the foot of my driveway as he was about to lauch the volumes onto my property.
I asked him, “Why are you giving me two of these phone books when you gave me two of the same ones six months ago?”
He said, “I can give you up to four but anything more than four and you have to make a special request to the company.”
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I found a site where I could download a poster to put on my mailbox, saying ‘No Flyers, No Community Newspapers, No Phonebooks, Please. We Prefer the Trees’. It’s worked - my garbage is only half it was.
ArtW on July 31st, 2007 at 9:36 am | Link
find the company delivering these and drop them on their front lawn.
If you do not want the “CRAP” then just throw it away and move on and find something more productive to do with your time. As a business owner, we pay big sums of money to advertise in phonebooks and other sources of advertising, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, postcards, etc in hopes of offering a great product to someone that needs it. If there were not these forms of advertising for people to use to find goods & services, then what would your brilliant mind suggest? Maybe your can use your time wisely, instead of harrassing someone trying to earn a living, and come up with a better way for business & customers to come together.
Denise on December 26th, 2007 at 3:55 pm | Link