For people like myself, who don’t have access to the internet at home, a phone book is a necessary and important resource. Every person should have the right to government phone numbers, school phones, and other community resources for purposes of consumer rights, activist rights, education, and engagement. Not to mention a yellow pages when you need a repair person. Since one listing is free for every business, I also see the phone book as a way for small businesses to make sure customers know how to contact them.

The current method of ensuring this right of all city residents is to distribute phone books to every household. As someone who teaches English and computer skills to both immigrants and native-born adults, I am certain that most low-income citizens would not have the time or knowledge to pick up phone books at Libraries or other distribution centers–as a former Library employee, I also realize that there wouldn’t be space for this purpose.

I prefer an opt-out system to an opt-in (an opt-in would primarily benefit the well-educated and those who are already have the time and motivation to be highly engaged in their communities).

If you can ignore the ads…but then, I don’t see people donating money to support the printing of phone books–without ads, the phone books no longer exist. And low-income folks and people like me lose their access to phone numbers. Besides, what else is your neice going to sit on when she comes to dinner at your house? Unless, of course, you have a 3-yr-old sized chair at your table.

We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.

We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:

1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 2000 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.

And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide.