The great promise of the digital age is the elimination of paper. I can file my taxes online without so much as a stamp being sent to the IRS. I can renew my license plates and driver's license with no lines at the DMV and no writer's cramp from mile-long forms. I just confirm my info from last time, pay my fee and done. The statements for my bank accounts, investments, credit cards, and several of my utilities arrive electronically with nary a tree harmed. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the progress. But....
Why on earth is it so hard for the yellow pages folks to get on board??? At this point I go online anytime I need a phone number. The only time I've used the physical phone book in recent memory was during a power outage to find the customer service phone number for the power company. I probably could have found it somewhere else, but there was a STACK of phone books sitting in the kitchen begging to be used just once in their pathetic lives.
I don't actually have a need for one set of hardcopy yellow/white pages. I'm pretty sure I don't need the convenient travel size copy to go with it. I quite certain I don't need the duplicate set of the both from each of the other phone book companies.
It's time to end the madness. This year, the books got waylaid in the recycling bin and only the refrigerator magnet made it into the house. But that's not nearly enough. Apparently there's a little known escape hatch. You can opt out of phone book delivery. The phone book companies don't advertise that fact, and it can be hard to find out how to do it for each one, but it is possible.
And it just got easier. YellowPagesGoesGreen claims that they will opt you out of all the different phone books. There's a 30-second form and off it goes. I just signed up. I'll let you know how it works.
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I think that is awesome, if it works. Did you do it for both of your names, or just hope that your address covers everyone in the house? And of course there's always the fear of giving out all your contact information and then receiving MORE junk. I'd rather deal with the phone books than that.
I'm hoping that we're covered for the address and that I don't have to register Kim's name as well. We'll see.
You crack me up. I'm SO checking out that site!
We were chatting tonight at a family get together about the football/tire changing night. Matt's sister-in-law Cathryn was in town and it came up. Gave us all a good laugh. Good times!
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