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General News: Renewed Campaign on Unwanted Phone Books
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| Some of the yellow book directories delivered this year in Cornwall-on-Hudson. |
December 22, 2009
Barry Gruber is fed up with the phone books being dumped on his property in Cornwall-on-Hudson and on Monday he returned to the village board where he first raised his complaints nearly four years ago. At that time, as many as three or four directories were being left at residents’ doorsteps and Gruber succeeded in getting the village to draft a law that would allow the village to create a list of people who did not want the books. That law was never enacted but the phone companies created their own ‘opt out’ policies for those who did not want a phone book (Opt out here). The only problem, according to Gruber, is that even after he opted out, one of the phone companies, Yellow Book, is still sending unwanted books to his door.
“I have to pay to recycle these,” Gruber told the trustees, “It’s a travesty that we have to deal with this.”
Trustees agreed that unwanted deliveries continued, although trustee Barbara Gosda noted that a Yellow Book representative will come pick up an unwanted directory if contacted. Gruber asked the board to write a letter to the state attorney general about the company’s behavior but members decided to send a letter to Yellow Book to report complaints and to ask it to improve the distribution of the book.
In the four years since Gruber began his campaign against phone books, more and more people are getting phone numbers from internet sites, like www.whitepages.com, which stand to benefit with the decline in paper directories. White Pages has started a campaign against the directories and has more than 5,000 fans on its Facebook page,
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It seems that no good deed goes un-noticed. I think its a nice service to get the phone book. I also just like seeing the people at the toll booth every day. Does not mean that EZ Pass is not unquestionably more efficient in everyway, Its just that there is a nice tradition about exchanging my day with another human not a machine, let alone saving one more job. The world is moving at such a grand pace that Im convinced we have lost a lot. I remember the last time I used the phone book. My wife and I sat together at the kitchen table looking through the yellow pages at ads for plumbing contractors. I also recall recently seeking the best place to shop for an item in Cornwall on the internet.It was quite frustrating when I found places in Europe. Lets keep a bit of our past around a little longer. Remember sitting on one at the kitchen table as a kid?
posted by j h on 12/22/09 at 12:37 PM
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I agree with Barry. Many of these dropped off tomes are from companies that aren't even connected to the phone company. It is an annoyance to deal with these things. The 8 point font that they use makes them useless to anyone with poor vision. I resent the fact that I am burdened with recycling them; I generally leave them in the driveway and just drive over them until they have decomposed enough to wash away with a good rain... a convenient but unsightly remedy...
posted by Kate Benson on 12/24/09 at 12:13 AM
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