A note to the publishers of the Yellowbook phone directory. Chucking things in people’s yards without their permission is called littering. Throwing this phone directory in my driveway is littering. Got it? Thank you.
This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.
how abut giving us the address from where these were distributed and we can toss them back
You can opt out of future deliveries at yellowpagesoptout.com.
Yet, I consider that option like having someone toss a couch in my yard with a card stapled to it that says “If you would like to opt out of having any more furniture dumped in your yard, call me.” I will never understand how companies get away with these things.
My problem with the optout page is it requires you to furnish them with all kinds of spammable info about yourself before they’ll even take you to the optout page. No thanks. I’ll continue to feed the recycling stream with only a short detour in my driveway.
Yellow pages opt out does not work if you are in a complex only individual addreses. We ahve oped out for years and still get the litter. What a waste in the digital age.
I even found blood on my phone book from where they had so violently clung and scratched by their fingernails to hold onto a dying marketing medium. Let it die peacefully and respectfully already.
seems overly aggressive.
Yes, it is annoying.
Is this company required to have a City of Tucson business license? If they are and have one and are littering…
@Hurri: and if you don’t provide them with that info how can they know its really you opting out and now just some nut-job neighbor?? Given so many people move, they need to contact you each year to verify you are still at that address so they can keep you on the do-not-deliver list…
The first problem is the number of competing “phone” books that deliver, and I’d guess it is every two months or so for one variety or another. We don’t need a new book five times a year.
The second problem is they just drop them in the street, whether you want them or not. That is indeed littering and an eyesore. I’ve been complaining about this for several years to our Board of Supervisors, and suggesting we need an ordinance requiring anyone using a street delivery system to pick up the litter still sitting there after a week or so.
I wouldn’t mind the free phone book if it actually had all the numbers of all the businesses in town. But, for just about every business I have looked up in any phone book from any vendor in this town, they only list one or two locations for the business when I know there are more. Usually, the location closest to me is not listed – and I am in the center of town. Yes, I have internet, but sometimes it is just easier to open up the phone-book, like when I just shut down my computer.