Extremely annoying, fugly looking things sitting outside my house right now
  • R.B.
  • Extremely annoying, fugly looking things sitting outside my house right now
For a whole week. Getting wet, smelly. Seriously, I am pissed off. SuperMedia, you are not doing your job. I went to www.yellowpagesoptout.com last year and opted out, but we still keep getting this yellow stuff.

What bothers me is that even if I opted out for my apartment, unless all the other apartments opt-out, we will keep getting yellow pages. But I know that nobody wants them, 'cos nobody ever picks them up. I am glad the city is regulating these guys.The Yellow Pages Association says that Seattle doesn't need a city-enforced opt-out system (expected to be out in late spring), because YPA is coming up with something better. A one-stop national opt-out site which will let you enter your zip code and pick the yellow pages publications you don't want delivered to your doorstep right then and there. (Right now the opt-out system provided by the Yellow Pages Association is rather cumbersome: you have to contact each yellow pages publisher individually to let them know you don't want their books).

Yellow pages publishers have also argued at Seattle City Council meetings that their current opt-out system works (hello, pictorial evidence above proves it obviously doesn't). Maggie Stonecipher of Dex One, Seattle's biggest yellow pages publisher, says that her company provided numerical evidence to the City Council in support of this. The city chose not to hear that," she said. "They only provided anecdotal evidence about how the current opt-out system doesn't work."

According to Stonecipher, when Dex One first started meeting with the city council in June to figure out a solution for unwanted yellow pages, approximately 11,000 people in Seattle had signed up for Dex's opt-out system. Dex identified 56 failures. "We took that data and are working to improve it," Stonecipher said. "We are researching where our process went wrong." By October, Dex One had 17,000 people signed up for the opt-out program.

I was one of them. And I still get Dex and SuperMedia and the rest of the yellow junk. Someone help!