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1. MargL
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   ...that I -don't- want a phonebook so they gave me a hangtag on the door instead!
   Finally! After a bazillion requests to stop getting a book, they stopped! So, if you notice a suspicious white van driving slowly down your street you maybe lucky enough -not- to get a phonebook today :-D

   Posted 1 year ago #         

2. luckymom30
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   We got our phone books delivered last night via a dark blue truck. I am goin to let my daughter make origami and paper mache with them!

   Posted 1 year ago #         

3. owen
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   Too late for this round from DEX, but I just found and wanted to share these sites for unsubcribing:

   http://selectyourdex.dexknows.com/
   http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/

   Posted 1 year ago #         

4. KBear
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   What did the hangtag say on it? Something like...

   "Dear 'valued' customer: We understand you don't want the large, heavy piece of junk we customarily leave on your property without your permission. Please accept this much smaller piece of trash in its place. One of our representatives will be contacting you shortly to explore other ways we can be of disservice to you. Don't forget to 'opt out' again next year!"

   Posted 1 year ago #         

5. HolyKow
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   These are the links to all 3 that service my west seattle address:

   http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/stop-yellow-pages/
   fill out form

   http://www.dexknows.com/green/
   click stop delivery and follow the flow

   http://my.supermedia.com/directoryoptout/
   This is the Verizon/Idearc opt out page

   For call ins, these are the numbers:

   Idearc 1 800 888 8448 Option 2 (Opt Out Of Verizon Yellow Pages)
   At&t 1 800 922 0008 Option 3 (Opt Out Of the Real Pages)
   Dex 1 877 243 8339
   Yellow Book 1 800 888-8448 Option 2

   Save the earth.

   hk

   Posted 1 year ago #         

6. Julie
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   Another option, if you use CatalogChoice.org to stop catalog mailing, is to find these all in one place by searching "phone" one CC. All the ones I looked at required sending you to the phone book company's opt-out site, rather than just setting preferences on CC, but at least you don't have to type in each address separately--and you can track compliance on CC.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

7. ToddinWestwood
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   LOL @ KBEAR!

   Posted 1 year ago #         

8. AlkiCabCompany
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   i just left mine on my front porch..maybe it will serve as a sand bag if there is a storm that floods Alki. Maybe Dex knows a storm is comin'.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

9. westseattlegirl
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   I have tried to get off these lists a number of times too. My My newest strategy is to call the biggest advertisers in the phone books (front and back cover) and complain to them. This seems to be working a lot better than trusting the phone book companies to take me off. Now the advertisers themselves are calling the phone book companies with my complaints and then the phone book companies call me to apologize profusely. I mean it when I say I will never work with a business that I see advertising in these environmental disasters.

   Posted 1 year ago #         

10. Garden_nymph
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    I use mine to paper train my Chupy when I have to leave her in the house, never a good idea by the way... For this, the THICK book is my favorite, it lasts for at least a few days of indoor "activity."

    Posted 1 year ago #         

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