yellow pages ritual

[kinell]

well i have just recovered my composure following great excitement after this years copy of the yelow pages arrived at my door

my ritual and i guess of most of the population is to dig around in the drawer where you put the last copy one year ago and replace with the new unopened copy

then chuck last years unopened copy in the bin

and businesses still pay for the privelege......haha

why dont we get asked if we want half a tree delivered to our door every year, surely this is the worst case of unsolicited mail we have to endure?

[ummmm]

I actually use mine now they have started printing take away menus in them.

[R1Geezer]

why bother with it at all? It's all online anyway, as you say I still have last years unused! Still at kleast there's someone at work who arranges recycling. Oddly enough you can't just bung it in the recycling bin for some reason.

[Buenchico]

I supervise the delivery of Yellow Pages throughout several areas of East Anglia. We have some people who complain bitterly if they believe that they've not received their book (notably, of course, those who pay to advertise in it!). Their names and addresses are added to a VIP list for futures deliveries. However the VIP lists also include people who've specifically indicated that they don't want to receive Yellow Pages any more. To get your address added to the 'non-delivery' list, simply call 0800 555 444, free of charge.

Chris

PS: The printed Yellow Pages remain vastly superior to Yell.com, simply because many more businesses pay for display ads in the print version than on the website. So for example, you might be looking for a garage that specialises in Citroen cars. Yell.com will list all of the garages in your area but, without the display advertising that appears in the printed version, you won't be able to see which ones are of interest to you.

[R1Geezer]

Thanks Chris, why can't the old ones be put in the recycling bin?

[Buenchico]

R1Geezer:
That's a question you need to ask your local council. Every council in the areas where my teams deliver (Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Ipswich, Babergh, Suffolk Coastal, Waveney & Ipswich) accepts Yellow Pages in the normal recycling bins. Only a few councils won't let you put them in, presumably because their recycling plants can only cope with loose sheets, and not with bound volumes.

Chris

[Whoever]

I had an elderly eccentric relative who used to store them in his lavatory and rip the pages out instead of buying toilet paper. I can't imagine what effect this had on his local sewers. Perhaps he had an ongoing subscription with Dynarod.!

[NiceCupOfTea]

^Eww that's horrible! I actually use mine all the time. I feel utterly abandoned, though, right now as I've not had my new one yet sob sob

I find the internet version unusable. I do try it, especially at work to source companies for quotes. I'll tell it the parameters, and it will still give rubbish. The part about 'distance from X' has to give the biggest joke results of all though. I normally end up resorting to running round the office to find our one and only paper copy. As it's invariably been passed from pillar to post, I gather everyone else in my workplace feels the same. And no, we're not all Luddites thank you.

[Rev Sermon]

Why not wait until you've got two, "that's equivalent to a whole tree". Look up an origamiist, then get them to come round and make you a tree for xmas!!!

[craft1948]

I used to have the mind-numbing job of compiling Yellow Pages. They switched me to another job after I'd put a Photographer under Pig Breeders and a Martial Arts club under Marital Aids...........oh and I also gave a golf club a gamekeeper instead of a greenkeeper in the BT directory :-)