Comments on: When Will Print Phone Books Die?

By: Dick Larkin’s Hillbilly Yellow Pages Logic | The Deets

Dick Larkin’s Hillbilly Yellow Pages Logic | The Deets — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:17:46 +0000

[...] This is definitely happening. Hopefully, YP companies figure out how to use the web more effectively than [...]

By: Kyle Webs

Kyle Webs — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:54:26 +0000

Is there a reason why they even make those? lol
All you do is throw them in the trash anyway. It’s like spam or junk mail.
Whenever I don’t really call anyone anymore, I mostly email people. And when I need an address, I try to find the business’ website and get it from there.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:53:50 +0000

I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post n relevant Blogs.

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 5700 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. So check out MyJunkTree and make difference in your mailbox.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:12:15 +0000

I worked for these people delivering phone books thinking it was quick cash to do during break. After 8 hours of horrible labor and a huge headache, I learned this:

First of all, no one wants these books. They want you to delivery so many to all address. Half of the businesses are in existence anymore thanks to the recession.

God Forbid if you have extras from the books. They question it all. The phone book Nazi Lady had to tell us that everything has to be accounted for. Except the fact that no one will open a phone book ever. Use Google, Yahoo, Hell even Whitepages.com

Verizon subs everything out to a company DDA which has no regard for anything.

Oh and to Boot I have to pray that I will get my stinkin $140 slave labor money in a couple of days.

Thanks Verizon and Scam Company.

OH and do they ever waste so much paper and plastic bags.

Love the other Video on here Deets.

By: kohler

kohler — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:27:33 +0000

Of course, it doesn’t take a degree in economics to realize that a book delivered to a household that doesn’t want it provides no return to local advertisers. That, of course, is assuming that the goal is to help local businesses make money through YP advertising, thus continue to advertise.

If the industry really watched this stuff like hawks, they’d do this: make it easy for people to cancel their phone book deliveries. Publish the “do not deliver” addresses on the routes used by contractors. Deduct the contractor’s pay for every complaint you receive from someone on the do not deliver list.