How to Stop Phone Book Delivery
June 3, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Consumer Information, Reusing and Recycling
Is there any (good) reason why I have three or four telephone books delivered to my door, or rather thrown on my front lawn, every year?
There are phone books for just my township and phone books for the county. There’s a phone book just for local businesses and phone books for every business in the county. This is such a waste.
Personally, I think telephone books should only be sent to those who ask. I look online for all my phone numbers anyway. I’m putting an end to it right now. Want to join me?
If you want to stop receiving phone books call:
- ATT/ Yellow Pages: 1-800-479-2977
- Verizon: 800-555-4833, press 4, then 5, then 2
- DEX: 1-877-243-8339, press 2
- Yellow Book: 1-800-929-3556, press 2
(Hat Tip: Triple Pundit)
This is what I’m going to be doing today, and it will totally be worth all that time spent on the phone. Meanwhile, what am I going to do with all the phone books here?
Hmmm….sounds like a post. Check back shortly for some good ideas.
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Thanks for the tip. Will be making a few phone calls today
Actually,I love getting phone books.
I’m lucky enough to have a cat that uses shredded paper for litter.
J just tear the newspaper and phone books with the grain and drop it in the litter box.
No bulky bags of litter to carry.No mess and it’s sort of recycling.
I’ve done that too. They are so much paper. I don’t mind the main one from my phone company as much … but I REALLY mind the duplicate/extra phone books.
Great idea to cancel the books. I’m sick of them too.
If you were my dad, you would make worm bedding out of the old books. (My dad takes care of his own fishing bait).
My college roommate and I used an old phone book to create an art project for our dorm room door. She wanted to be a lawyer, so we took all 26 pages of the attorney section to decorate our door. It was neat!
Thank you for this. I only get two phone books and one of them goes to the mountains for fire starter, lol.
You get multiple books because they each cover different geographic ands shopping areas.
Consumers can “opt out” of receiving telephone books at http://www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org. This organization 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.