Going Green: San Francisco May Ban the Yellow Pages
- Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:37pm by
Meredith Jessup
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After banning Happy Meal toys and plastic bags (among other things), the city of San Francisco is now turning its attention to another pressing issue. On Tuesday, the city’s Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced legislation that would ban the unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages. 
Chiu argues that in the age of the Internet, the large volumes delivered to homes and offices are becoming increasingly obsolete. As a result, he says end up going directly to the recycling bin. Currently, Chiu’s offices estimates that more than 1.5 million copies of the Yellow Pages phone books are delivered door-to-door in San Francisco every year.
“If we’re serious about the environment, it‘s time we recognize that phone books are a 20th century tool that doesn’t meet the business or environmental needs of the 21st century,” said Chiu.
But not everyone is on board with Chiu’s new “green” proposal. According to the San Francisco Gate, one trade group promised to challenge the measure in court if it is approved. Instead of allowing for an “opt-out” provision for consumers as other cities have, Chiu’s proposal goes much further:
Under the proposal, phone companies and other distributors and publishers of Yellow Pages phone books would be barred from leaving them on doorsteps and in lobbies without receiving advance permission.
The Yellow Page companies could contact consumers by e-mail, direct mail, phone solicitations or in person, asking if they would like the directory. If the response is positive, the phone book could be delivered. Consumers also would be able to pick them up at a distribution center.
Unsolicited deliveries, however, could result in fines of up to $500 for each violation. The law would be enforced by the city’s Department of the Environment.
The white pages – whose general distribution is mandated by state law – would not be affected. Dual white and Yellow Pages phone books would have to abide by the new restrictions, if they are approved.
According to the Yellow Pages Association, the proposed measure “would be an infringement of our constitutional rights – the right to distribute speech,” a spokesperson for the group said, noting that the Yellow Pages business actually represents a $13-billion-a-year industry. (Who knew?)
She said that it would unfairly target one industry. Direct-mail companies, phone solicitors and the like would not face the same clampdown, she said.
Ditching the Yellow Pages altogether may also pose problems for small businesses who solicit new customers with their ads.
The Yellow Pages aren’t just unpopular in San Fran — the Seattle city council is considering a similar proposal.
If you don’t wish to receive a copy of the Yellow Pages, the association offers an opt-out site: www.yellowpagesoptout.com.
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Comments (145)
martinrnelson
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:52pmNow regarding the ban on Happy Meal Toys, War Ships from pulling in port and Code Pink picketing in front of my Marine Corps Recruiting office….I’ve got nothing for you and I hope more like me refuse to spend one dime in your city. It’s too bad your city has been kidnapped.
Report Post »martinrnelson
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:48pmI don’t think you have to be green to do away with the phone book…it’s just becoming obsolete. I can’t remember the last time I actually used a phone book. So I wouldn’t call it green, just a good business decision.
Report Post »anutter
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:38amI would have to agree on that one. Phone numbers are on the net (or phone). Even businesses are eliminating paychecks for paycards. Landlines will be around for a bit longer, but they will also fall to the ways of modern technology. Just a matter of time.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:38pmWhat will some people do for toilet paper?
Report Post »WAR PIGS CRAWLING
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:56pmThe AFL-CIO newsletters???
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:37pmOr maybe we could ban banning.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:35pmI personally think we should ban San Fransisco.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:34pmGreat Idea!!! Gee, I wonder if they can ban junk-mail and junk-phone calls, and junk door-bell ringers? I’m all for it! NOTHING unsolicited!!! If I didn’t ask for it, I don’t want it! We have NO SOLICITING signs posted in our neighborhood, yet the religious recruiters have no hesitation to ring the bell! When informed of the NO SOLICITING policy, they simply say “We aren’t soliciting!” Kind of like NEW MATH I guess–you know, when Bush is responsble for our deficit, which is then tripled and quadrupled by the new kid on the block! It must be NEW MATH!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:31pmFor God’s sake, will they fall into the ocean already!? Sheesh!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:21pmWhat about the business’ that pay thousands of dollars to advertise in the Yellow Pages?
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:11pmI will be so delighted when San Francisco and LA fall deep into the ocean, they will be sure to live a much cleaner life at the very least.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:24pmnot to mention the millions of illegals that wont need to be cared for at taxpayer expence
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:10pmThats great run another business out of town
Report Post »Capt_Spalding
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:08pmTime to ban San Francisco… or is that Ban Francisco?
Report Post »experiencethetruth
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:05pmliberals=freaks=queer eye for the straight guy=sodom & gemorah= do you want to go there..
Report Post »This guy is a dicktater
psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:20pmdicktaker?
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:01pmThe mob and police need those to extract confessions and help persuade the ‘tough to get through to’ …..would they rather they use guns and billy clubs ? ;)
They should keep em to use on the politicians there from time to time…
Actually as a one time Chicago Trib Pressman, I kind of feel sorry for that business and it’s many many employees, they were so integral in our communication and commerce development and now they’re near DeSoto level.
Report Post »Authentic Conservative
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:00pmEvery Red Blooded American should jump in line to support the Green Bay Packers! The Packers defeated the Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon thus earning them the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl. By doing so, they saved the Hard-Working, Red Blooded, Taxpaying Americans literally several million dollars of tax money. How you say? Simple… we were told that if the Chicago Bears had won that President Obama (and probably his family) would be attending the Super Bowl to cheer on his hometown team. Since the Bears lost…the President won’t be attending. The money saved from not using Air Force 1, the limosines, all the additional security, and let‘s not forget Michelle Obama’s entourage, is literally several million dollars! Therefore every American should cheer on the Green Bay Packers at the Super Bowl to show them our gratitude. Oh…and let‘s not forget to thank Chicago Bear’s Quarterback Jay Cutler for his role in the Packer’s success! With that said…let‘s circulate this email to everyone we know so they can understand why they should cheer for America’s team…the Green Bay Packers!
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:05pmI like your thinking conservative! Well said!!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:30pmI love the Packers. They’re my second favorite team. Great players, great fans, I loved to watch them party down it Atlanta’s house after their fans all LEFT. We all needed them to win in Chicago and they came through, so I don’t take much glee from the fact that they are GOING DOWN on Sunday.
Cheers!
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:52amPlease don’t punish the Bears for the unfortunate association of Obama with Chicago.
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:59pmPelosi’s San Francisco has a lot bigger problems than the Yellow Book. Can’t wait till the big quake comes and half of that state falls into the sea, something akin to the cataclysm that hit Sodom and Gomorrah.
Report Post »what4
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:07pmYeah, looking forward to that beach front property here!!
Report Post »twofoot_trucker
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:58pmI long ago lost any sympathy I had for anyone living in the state of California. It’s things like this that make normal people in the real world come to the conclusion that California would be better off sliding into the ocean.
Report Post »trilateral-my-ass
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:56pmIt’s official: SF is the land of the stupid (liberals).
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:49pmWhen will San Fran oficially ban logic and get it over with.
Report Post »Where is that friggin earthquake?
It’s too long overdue.
Maybe the lord will smite them some other creative way.
Like letting an oil company discover the largest oil reserves ever discovered on the planet.
That would totally goof them up. All that debt….all that oil,….too stupid to drill it!
Let’s just give California back to Mexico.
On second thought,….the mexicans won‘t want it in it’s current condition,…polluted with liberals.
M-O-O-N Spells Moon
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:48pmBut but but… they’re being recycled! Doesn’t recycling save the Earth?
Yet another example of the enlightened elite deciding they know better than the herd. I think I need to go listen to my favorite song some more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhWfSeMYHA
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:15pmbe a rancher,not cattle,(GB).
Report Post »megansmom
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:48pmwe all know why normal people don’t live in San Fran in the open. That‘s all I’m saying
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:58pmmaybe Lex Luthor had a really good idea after all.
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:12amI just watched that old Superman movie last week. At least I’ll have my ocean front property in Arizona!
Report Post »The American
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:59amPsyco, you may be on to something!
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:47pmI like having a phone book lying around,info on the phone cost money in NY,book is free.big DUH,lets put more people out of work,$13 BILLION a year,how much taxes are they gonna lose over thaat.or is that what the $500.00 fine is designed to cover,typical lib telling the peons what to do ,because they say so.
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:50amCircle of life. Lumberjack cuts down tree, papermill makes it into paper, ink company makes ink, YP agent sells ad, it all comes together in a book that is delivered, unwanted, to my doorstep. I immediately place the book in the recycling bin, the recycling guy takes it to the recycling center, the recycling center bundles it and sells it to the papermill, the papermill grinds it up and combines it with new trees to make paper for new phone books. Lather, rinse, repeat. Think of all of the people who would be unemployed if the SF legislation takes hold in every city and town! YP is too big to fail! They need a government bailout, legislation, and regulation to expand and get America back to work!
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:45pmThe ‘opt out’ option is reasonable. To fine the company $500 per book left without permission is ridiculous. They are using the maximum fine for repeat littering offenders.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:14pmBecause “Repeat Litterers” is exactly what they are. I would skip any ban or law though, and just charge them with a crime.
They don’t want to pay for shipping (like everyone else does) so they dump them in piles at the entry to apt. buildings in any sort of weather. They are unsolicited, unwanted, and indeed litter.
Report Post »TonyDarrington
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:44amWhy do I have to call 5 different YP companies to opt out. Why can’t I choose the one I want (if I want any) and tell them to send me a copy. It works like that for every other industry.
Report Post »Maybe car manufacturers and gold distributors could take the YP business model. Deliver everyone a car and a gold bar, unless they call and tell you to stop.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:45pmWhat else are the homeless going to use for toilet paper and insulation.?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:54pmLooks like we could solve their problems quick. We aren’t social engineering, are we?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:59pmQuick, what am I thinking about, and it’s not tacos.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:05pmHome School?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:11pmNope, we do good with Catholic School.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:11pmDamn, all I can think about right now is burritos.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:44pmMaybe you could set up special drop off points for those who don’t want their copy to be used for toilet paper in the penal system, or insulation in the San Francisco owned buildings or homeless shelters. ids this city for real?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:46pmAlike minds.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:50pmSeveral years ago, when I was stationed in Sacramento, my mom and dad came to visit, the last time my dad was in San Fran was in the 50′s, when he was in the navy. As we spent the day at the wharf and Alcatraz, we were heading back to the freeway, and right on the street were 2 guys, dressed in leather, one wearing chaps, with nothing on underneath but a bright pink thong. All my dad (who is from cowboy country) had to say, was “Yep, figures”.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:16pmdid you here al gores latest enlightened statement………the severe winter storms are caused by global warming{climate change}…………thats kind of like saying all the rain is causing desert like conditions………
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:02pm@oldguy49
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:16pm
We never had storms before Al Gore stepped out of his ivory tower and said, “Hey! Global warming! Cold weather, hot weather, WTF?!! I smell money!”
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:10pmYeah, when I was a kid, we lived in North Dakota back in the 70′s, it never got below zero back then, we never had extreme weather or blizzards….
Report Post »I still remember walking to school in -20 below, and we hit the record one year, -70 below. But this NEW weather, well, Al Gore is a nobel prize winner, just like Obama. I think they give out those awards so we know who the morons are, kind of like the dunce caps, its just the Nobels don’t hurt their feelings. I think Keith Olberman is up for one this year.
silentwatcher
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:42pmnothing this ‘ex-hippie’ region does anymore surprises me…..it’s like they want to be at the forefront of anything that is different from the rest of the nation.
psycodad36
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 9:54pmthey are progressives,that means that you are wrong and they will show you the way,no matter how much it hurts
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:02pmI guess they are doing this for all the “little” people who don’t have access to the internet. How ’bout if you don’t want Yellow Pages, you can opt out, not the other way around.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:06pmThis story is just more evidence of the growing conspiracy by Van Jones, The Tides Foundation, George Soros (sorry if that’s redundant), Cass Sunstein, ACORN, The SEIU, Valerie Jarret, Bill Ayers, John Holdren, The Muslim Brotherhood and many others to kill Glenn Beck and his family. Obviously.
oldguy49
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:14pmlet them do it…..they are going to green themselves out of a state
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:15pmMy elderly mother has no computer (and refuses to get one) so they will need to call her. If she doesn’t get to the phone fast enough or is not there, there will be problems because she doesn’t know how to get her messages. If she tries to call them and gets an automated system she will hang up (gets confused when asked to go through the many steps).
Report Post »Can’t they just keep having it magically appear on her doorstep? She would be so much happier.
silentwatcher
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:16pmall that over phone books?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:17pm@broker0101
Report Post »No, just a conspiracy to get you, don’t open that door dude.
taxed
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:20pmLibs will ban themselves back to the stone ages…
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:31pmThis is part of a bigger initiative which will be statewide soon.
Report Post »Here is SB 920
http://www.cawrecycles.org/issues/current_legislation/sb_920_10
Guess who is pushing it after it got vetoed by Arnold a few years ago ?
The same guy who is currently after Rush’s blood . And he was after Sarah’s head before that.
Now he wants to be Mayor of SF.
Dustyluv
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:48pmI sold yellow page ads until late last year. I saw this coming and changed careers..It’s going down the tubes because of the Internet. You wont see any in large cities in a couple of years…
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:55pm@psycodad36
They are Progressives.
What they are doing is nudging. Nudging. Nudging. One little piece of control after the other.
No wonder my cousin is leaving California for Arizona! — and taking her little dog with her!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:58pm@broker0101
Report Post »Posted on February 1, 2011 at 10:06pm
Being familiar with your comments, I can say that you were probably just being sarcastic to conservatives; but you know what? I hadn’t thought about it that way, but you are probably RIGHT, even if it is accidental.
Cemoto78
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:05pmIt‘s pretty easy for those who don’t have computers, nor want one, and still want a yellow pages book. The City of San Francisco will MANDATE that everyone in the city MUST buy a computer within a stated amount of time after the inception of the law, and failure to do so will result in a severe fine and imprisonment. While in the lock-up you will be using recycled phone books for makeshift blankets, toilet paper, and clothing.
Because you had to pay the $100.00 fine and are now probably unable to afford a computer the state will give you a voucher for $2500.00 to buy a new computer so you will be in compliance of the new law. Also, you will have to perform community service which entails that you must canvass the neighborhoods knocking on doors to make sure all those living there are in compliance to the new Computer Mandated law. If you find someone who is out of compliance you WILL report them immediately to the newly formed Computer Mandated Compliance Office of the name and address of those out of compliance. The roughly 300 newly hired and very well trained Compliance Officers, with state pensions and union dues, will make sure to follow up on your report and take the necessary action to bring all into compliance.
This is a win win for the city as it creates more jobs and finds a way to spend all those stimulus funds making it easier to get more of the upcoming stimulus funds to continue to promote job creation and shovel ready projects like this.
INSANITY
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:06pmOK .. NOT everyone has a computer.. and do you know what it costs to dial 411??? do they even have 411 anymore?? I use my yellow pages on occasion.. OK it was 2 years ago but I was looking for someone to cut down my tree and decided to see who in the area did that type work.. I found MORE businesses than what they had on the internet in the book.. they USE to pick up the old books and give you a new one and recycle the old ones
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:09pmThis story is so laughable….you should watch the SouthPark episode where the “smug” is so bad it makes a “perfevt storm” over san fran. These people in that city neither surprise me nor worry me. If any kind of revolution hits, they will all be at home watching it on MSDNC, getting high and saying “wow, man…..did you just see that? Gimme some more doritos. I’m SO baked!”
Report Post »Eff you, san fran. First city in American history to “secceed” from the union, and all they needed was the bomb herb to sit back and wallow in their own smug opinions of the rest of the world.
Dig it.
FoundersRedPill
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:10pmWith California currently swirling the fiscal toilet, it seems entirely appropriate to ban the yellow pages.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:15pmThose phone books are a pain, delivered without your consent to your door. You get them, you recycle them, although your really supposed to recycle them in a special place because the quality of the paper is so poor they’re not wanted in a normal paper recycle stream.
If anyone here has actually looked up a phone number in one of those books, rather than just type a few words into Goggle, then… well then I don’t know what to say. Go ahead and make a conspiratorial plot out of this, but I’ll be very surprised if you see paper phone books anywhere in a year or two. I‘m surprised they’re still around now that I think of it. The world has changed friends a neighbors!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:33pmLMAO @ broker0101
Report Post »You SO wallow in your shallow, brainwashed opinions that i laugh at you, and would laugh in your FACE if you ever brought it to bear to me! You have recycled here EVERY opinion fed to you that we all see here anyway from MSDNC (those of us who watch to know our enemy) that your posts have now been religated to the same part of my brain that remembers Larson “The Far Side” and Kliban “Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head” and “Whack Your Porcupine”.
BROKER, I will incessantly mock you till the day the “Big O” throws the kill switch on me, and there have been few more deserving.
Good luck on here. You will need it
On a serious note, do you actually have any “real” info to offer us besides mocking, name-calling propaganda, cuz we sure are in need of a good arguement, seeing as how you huff-po retards are so lacking in that skill-set.
Anything?
Then shut your pie-hole.
oldoldtimer
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:38pmWe need to round up several million squirrels and turn them lose in SF. So many nuts! So many nuts! No more hungry squirrels.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:46pm@oldoldtimer
Report Post »just make sure the squirrels wear condoms, we don’t want to get PETA after us.
ishka4me
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:57pmjust mix the yellow pages with the blue government pages and you get green. government and business equals gree. nuff said
Report Post »azmomof6
Posted on February 1, 2011 at 11:57pmWoohoo, ban everything! Step by step get rid of cars, food, clothes, houses, businesses, etc… it’s all too dangerous for the environment, the animals, or the people. Before you know it, all that will be left of San Francisco will be a bunch of naked, hungry, homeless people and some stinky, noisy walruses. Then all that will be left to do, is make the no breathing law… it’s causing global warming (or cooling, depending on what the current whether trend tends to be). Those geniuses in San Francisco are going to legislate themselves into oblivion. Good Riddance!
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:04amThey have a department of enviroment, wow no wonder the whole state is crashing. They have B.S. things like that in all of there states.
Report Post »MR.CONSERVATIVENEGRO
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 12:31amI thought that these tree hugging, dope smoking, long maggot hared infrsted, fm radio type…all loved recycling. If the book ends up being recycled…isn’t that good for the envoronment. Why does Chiu hate recyclers, and those that promote it. Green-jobs will be threatened and all the man on man-women on women sites will be eliminated from secrecy…Why Mr. Chiu..Why do you hate sooo many of your own legislative backed creations?
Report Post »nptden
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 1:21amtime for war against these jerks….we should practice our chemical warfare on San Francisco….
Report Post »BarbWire
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 2:50amI totally agree with you.
I used to live in SF; I went to school there. I left to go to college and never went back. I clearly remember feeling like “We are different. Every other place is weird. We are the only good place.” I scorned other locations. I mocked other places. I ridiculed other cities. I thought that everybody knew this, so I didn’t have to hide my laughter when I traveled. What is it about SF that made us feel that way? I guess people who still live there might have the same feeling? And that is maybe why they feel like they can do things that other’s think rediculous?
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:13amNPTDEN, your comment really made me laugh. S F is just a city full of liberal nuts, but there are still a few normal people who live there, I think. Could be wrong though. Mike Savage does live in S. F.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:32amBroker0101 should be ignored, he will go back to a lefty website where they can try to figure what he is talking about.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:51amnptden
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 1:21am
time for war against these jerks….we should practice our chemical warfare on San Francisco….
LOL…ever see the SouthPark “smug” episode where the Brofloski family (after buying a Prius) moved to san fran to be with other like minded people? The “smug” cload created was about to destroy the planet.
Report Post »Aided by the smug created from the George Cloonie Acadamy award speach, of course…
TonyDarrington
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:39amI just bought a new car. Ford, Chrysler and GM didn’t just drop cars off on my doorstep. I saw an ad on TV, went to the dealer, and bought a car I liked. Why do 5 different yellow pages companies have to drop products off on my doorstep? Why can’t they advertise on tv…wait, they already do. Why can’t they leave it up to me to call the company I choose and get a copy delivered? Why should I have to track down every yellow page company and “opt out” of delivery? This legislation actually makes sense. SF has finally done one thing I can agree with (maybe hell has frozen over, look outside).
This isn’t a free speech issue. It is a money issue. YP and YB make ad money based on distribution numbers. Few people would opt in to delivery, the distribution numbers would bottom out, and their ad revenues would fall. The YP company’s next best bet to unsolicited delivery is opt out delivery, because few people would take the time to call.
They throw their trash in the middle of my driveway, and I have to stop the car in the street and run out in the rain to dispose of it. I don’t want it, and I don’t want to have to take the time to call all of them to say, “Don’t give me this crap.” Why is the Yellow pages different than every other industry?
While I am on this rant, the white pages are becoming just as useless as landline home phone phones are being replaced by cell phones and social media. I can‘t tell you the last time I looked up somebody’s number in the phone book.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:52amTonyDarrington
“(maybe hell has frozen over, look outside).”
I live in East-central Indiana, and looking outside, yes, indeed this “hellhole” has in fact, frozen right over.
Report Post »TheLascone
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 11:34amThat city is trying to turn my state into a Nanny State !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5242517424/in/photostream/
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 3:00pmThey like fecal matter and urine on the streets but not phone books. Go Figure. Note to self. Send all old phone books to San Fran City Hall.
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