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Stop Mailing Me Phone Books

Feb 17, 2009 Posted to Tips

With Google’s local search, and sites like YellowPages.com, I haven’t opened a phone book in years. The printed books are such a waste of resources and time. I also get the same book delivered to my home and work addresses.

I contacted YellowPages.com via email and they were nice enough to give me a list of local providers who are responsible for phone books. So, I called Bell South, my local book provider, and removed both of my addresses from their mailing list.

  • AMERITECH: 1-800-346-4377
  • BELL ATLANTIC/VERIZON: 1-800-346-9639
  • BELL SOUTH: 1-800-682-4000
  • GTE: 1-800-346-9639
  • MCI: 1-800-444-3333
  • PAC BELL: 1-800-848-8000
  • SWBELL: 1-800-792-2665

Get rid of these monstrous books and help save a tree (and fuel, paper waste, water, forest animals, money and everything else that’s connected to producing a phone book)!

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Comments

  1. Brandon Burke February 18th, 2009 | 8:31 am

    I could not agree more. Hopefully it will just be a short time before that industry is dead. Unfortunately the books go right from my doorstep to the recycling bin. Thanks for doing the groundwork – I’m taking down those numbers.

  2. John Ford February 18th, 2009 | 10:04 am

    Brandon, I hope you’re right and phone books become a thing of the past. I’m getting ready to take 20+ unclaimed books from my condo building to the recycling drop-off and it seems like such a waste. I’m going to get as many people to unsubscribe as possible.

  3. Karen February 20th, 2009 | 9:25 pm

    I called to stop delivery at my home and my business. I still got them at the office which was a disappointment but, by next year, I should be off all the lists.

    Thanks for spreading the word.

  4. Kevin February 21st, 2009 | 9:58 am

    I made a table out of mine:
    http://byrdhouse.typepad.com/byrdhouse/2007/12/phonebook-phone.html

  5. Kyle T. Webster April 12th, 2009 | 12:48 pm

    Thanks for this great post, John! Very useful.

  6. joe February 1st, 2010 | 3:14 pm

    I called at&t, asked to be taken off, and they wanted my phone number so they could later “confirrm” my address. I said “well I can confirm now that’s my address”, but no dice, they said without them calling back to confirm the request may not go through. Basically these crooks want to make sure they get your phone # for some reason, maybe to sell it to someone else.

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