Verizon Yellow Pages Dumped 2,890 Pages of Trash on My Porch
Dear Verizon Yellow Pages,
Please stop littering my porch with telephone books, I don’t want them. And I’m just curious, but in a time when everyone is really focused on saving the planet, how is it that you feel OK dumping 7 pounds of trash in my yard?
And one more thing, how much did Allen A. Rad pay to be on the cover of your directory? I’m thinking People Newspapers could cut him a major advertising deal with perks like his face showing up on the right hand side of this blog and not in the trash.
Love,
Merritt
21 Comments to “Verizon Yellow Pages Dumped 2,890 Pages of Trash on My Porch”
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I’m right with you on this, and what’s up with the teeny tiny version? Anyway both versions were the first items to be deposited into my brand new city supplied 18 gallon recycling bin. And now there’s not much room left for my usual recycling trash.
There should be some kind of opt-out program, where you can go on a Web site and fill out an online form and say, “I don’t want this.”
Don’t forget, you can recycle the phone books. Just put them in your blue recycling bag/bin…which I do every time they show up on my doorstep.
Bethany, they sell advertising based on how many books they distribute. I don’t think they care what we do with the books. In Plano, we get both Verizon and AT & T books thrown in the yard. They are of little value since we have online phone books. Let’s start a bonfire on their corporate lawn!
This is really an environmental crime. Who uses phone books any more? If you want them, you should ask for them, and otherwise they shouldn’t be delivered.
Right before I left Fayetteville, one of the papers began this massive subscription push by throwing a free one on EVERY lawn in the city. One neighborhood (after repeated phone calls_ took it upon itself to return those papers, daily, to the front steps of the newspaper, until the paper quit throwing to non-subscribers in that neighborhood.
I’m just thinking they won’t sell that many ads if there are stacks of their phone books sitting in front of their building. Someone’s bound to take a picture or five, right?
I caught the illegal alien that was walking our neighborhood and gave it back to him. Which he put on my next door neighbors doorstep. And before you start with hate responses….he couldn’t speak a word of English which made me assume he was illegal. Which brings up a bigger question, how much trouble would Verizon get into if it got out that they were using illegal aliens to distribute the books? Somebody call Ginger Allen or Saul Garza!
You can be green-card legal and not speak a word of English. Also, you can be legally in the country, but still working illegally, depending on the kind of visa you have.
But, theoretically, if the books are distributed by independent contractors, those contractors hire the people that go from door to door, possibly paying them cash as day laborers even. Sure, it’s a PR blemish if one of your contractors is found to have been hiring an illegal immigrant, but we’re talking one small zit on your back in March, not backne in July.
Print media is a dying field. We’re seeing its’ last gasp, folks
I don’t know about you guys, but I find the on-line yellow pages to be rough to work with, and not so comprehensive as the print version. I don’t believe the web versions are as complete as the print versions. So I KEEP AT&T’s yellow and white pages and throw all others out. That includes three silly versions of Park Cities directories.
I don’t use the on-line yellow pages. I use Google. Type in whatever you need, and the city, and not only do you get a list, but you get a map.
Tin Man, I hope you are wrong. I work on the computer all day long doing graphic design and by the end of 9 hours staring at a lit monitor, my eyeballs are wrung-out onions. The last thing I want to do is to go to bed with an electronic novel. For pleasure reading, I will always prefer the print versions.
I agree, Gadfly. At the end of the day, if I’m reading for pleasure, I want a magazine or a book.
Bethany, Since I’m a visually stimulated kind-of gal and when it comes to local resources, I prefer the printed yellow pages. Because from the printed ads, you can tell what could be an overpriced service versus a cheesy service. When you Google, all service listings are equal. For me…A picture is worth a thousand words.
True…but at least with Google it also aggregates all of the possible reviews (good and bad) of a business, too.
Mostly, I just lack the desk real estate for a giant Yellow Page book.
Gadfly,
I have sold print media advertising sales for 6-7 years. Each month it gets more difficult to stay in this biz than the month before. I am going to be forced to find another line of work very soon.
Can one consider this littering? Perhaps even solicitation? Don’t we have laws against that. I’d like to see what our fair City has to say about this. If there aren’t ordinances against this there should be.
rope’s outgrowth
Good thing they disrupted those bins! Literally every person in my alley had theirs filled with those damn phonebooks.
Amen. Think about how many houses they put those on. How many of them go directly into the trash. And seriously, who uses paper yellow pages anymore anyways? Doesn’t everyone but grandma have internet?
Oh yes. https://ss82.shared.server-system.net/~paperlesspetition.org/sign.php
Paperless petition. Sign it and you can ask for them to no longer be delivered to your home.
Sign up to stop the nonsense.
Consumers can “opt out” of receiving telephone books at http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org. We will contact the publishers and inform them to stop delivering books. This is a free service for consumers. http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is working with state and local governments on ordinances concerning the delivery of unsolicited telephone books. http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is not against the telephone books but against the delivery of 4 to 5 pounds of paper on people’s door step 5 to 6 times per year and being told it is our responsibility to recycle something we did not ask for. If we need a book we will call. Otherwise I “opt out” from receiving it.