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At Last, You Can Send The Yellow Pages To Hell

At bloody last, now you can opt-out of delivery of those useless volumes of bound dead trees and CO2 known as the Yellow Pages. I would rather kill them all, but this is a step in the right direction.

The Yellow Pages Association in the US has decided it’s time stop pissing off most people with their stupid publication. They have opened a new site called National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site, which contains some useless sections as “Download Our Sustainability Report” (should be called We are a total waste), “How to Recycle your Yellow Pages Directory” (just don’t make us recycle this crap), and “The Yellow Pages Directory Facts” (fact: nobody cares).

Actually, the only section you should care about is the opt-out one, which is the only thing that makes sense in an age where you can use the internet – even to use the Yellow Pages themselves. So go it, enter your zip code and fill out the registration form. I know, even opting-out of the Yellow Pages is annoying, but it’s better than actually receiving them. To avoid any potential spam, I recommend you to create a mail account just for registration – say, fuckyouyellowpages12345@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to pass this around. If a few million people opt-out, perhaps that will send a definitive message that we don’t care about this obsolete book that not even the hipsters want in their homes. [Yellow Pages Opt-Out]

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    Molokov

    Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 8:07 AM

    To do this in Australia:
    https://www.directoryselect.com.au/ds/

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    Nodeity

    Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 10:36 AM

    So, do the people who deliver those trailer loads of books have a list of individual houses not to deliver to?? Cos from what I can see, given the thousands of houses they deliver to, it looks like they just dump and run at every house!! :}

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    huu

    Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 11:40 AM

    “We need your email address so we can send you an email to activate your cancellation and remind you when your three year cancellation period is approaching…”

    what the hell? so after 3 years they start sending the books again? that dont make sense!

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    Damian Glass

    Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    Hi.Sensis launched the directory select option in September 2010. Prior to this, opt out has been available via the telephone since 2005. Needless to say, there are still millions of searches made using the books each week and a large proportion of the population still rely on them. We understand that some people prefer not to receive the books and directory select (or by ringinig 1800 008 292) gives them that choice. The reason why people have to renew their opt-out choice every three years is because the opt out option is linked to residential addresses, rather than surnames. This means that when poeple move house, their opt out request does not follow them. Sensis makes it very simple for people to renew their opt out requests. If anyone has any other questions I can be contacted on damian.glass@sensis.com.au

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