Phone Book Legislation?
Maybe… Today The Consumerist featured Ed Kohler, one of my favorite bloggers. He writes “The Deets,” a Minneapolis based blog featuring local news and issues. He’s covered the phone book battle more than anyone else I’ve read, and deserves the recognition for taking to task the issues of waste and unwanted deliveries.
Also featured in this article is a story by Minneapolis TV station KARE – about, get this – possible state legislation to reduce deliveries by the masses of publishing companies, and treat unwanted deliveries as they should treated: As trash.
If I throw something on your lawn, it is called littering. If the phone company does it, it’s called marketing.
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Hi James, thanks for the mention. It would be nice if the phone book companies treated people like friends rather than numbers. They’re slow learners.
Somehow I knew that Consumerist post would make its way to Future Gringo. I just moved into a new place and phone book after phone book seems to be making its to my door every week…