Yellow Pages Opt Out: Consumers Top 10 Suggestions to Stop Getting Telephone Books

Posted by ypgg on May 5th, 2008 at 03:42pm

www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org continues to notify the Telephone Book Publishers with thousands of names of people that are “opting out” from wanting telephone books.  One of the most intriguing parts of the site is the suggestions that the customers have sent to www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org.  Here are the top ten suggestions to help stop the delivery of the books to people that do not want them.

1)                  Have an automated system like www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org where people can sign up to “opt out”.  (Thanks for the idea!  We think it is a good one!!)

2)                  Have the telephone book dropped off a central site (grocery store, gas station, etc) that people can pick up a book if they want one (and drop off the old book).  Leave this central site stocked for a seven day period.

3)                  When they drop a book off at houses have them come back the next week to pick up the old one in the recycled bag they left the new book in.

4)                  Have the industry mail a postcard one week before delivery with a sticker to be placed on the mailbox if we want the book. If there is not a sticker on the mailbox do not drop off the book.

5)                  Charge a fee to the telephone book company to allow them to drop off books in the local community.  They are getting paid billions of dollars and we are being left with the trash and landfill issues.

6)                  Enact a national “opt out system” similar to the “National No Call List”.  Except make is an opt in program.  We need to call to allow you to deliver us the book and not we have to call to stop you from delivering the book.  If we don’t call to sign up do not leave us a book.

7)                  Quit sending the books and move everything to a CD and just mail them.

8)              Have a five year plan to migrate to the web.  The industry can take the time to educate the customers and tell them they will be completely on-line in five years.  Do a campaign similar to the going digital television format that is happening now.

9)                  If they can pay people to deliver the  books they can pay people to walk up and down the streets to pick up old books.  This would give kids a chance to make some money, be a great fundraiser, help recycle, and ease landfill use.

10)              Impose littering rules on the publishers.  Why should they get to dump trash in my door and run? 

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