Myles Wearring on Tuesday Feb 23rd, at 03:11 PM
A pile of Yellow Pages on the street in Surry Hills, Sydney last week.
What are you using your freshly delivered stack of Yellow Pages for? An attractive stand for your computer monitor? Something to fill the top shelf of your kitchen cupboard? A booster seat for the kids? Emergency toilet paper, perhaps?
With the annual delivery of printed Yellow Pages directories in full swing around the nation, millions of people are facing the annoying reality of having to dispose of the hefty tomes left sitting on their front doorstep.
One person who wants to see an end to the mass delivery of these books is Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore.
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I rung and ‘opted out’ of getting the book.. I was told that they may still deliver it, however if this happens just to leave it on my door step and it will get picked up in a few weeks when they do a run past to pick up any unclaimed ones. Two months later it still sits on my front door step clearly worse for wear, its going in the bin.
Robert of Annandale on Friday Feb 26th, at 06:27 AM
FROM A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER’S P.O.V:
DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH REVENUE THESE BOOKS GENERATE FOR SME’S ESPECIALLY???
WITHOUT THE YELLOW & WHITE PAGES, OUR ENTIRE ECONOMY WOULD CRUMBLE. SURE, A SMALL PORTION OF THE POPULATION WOULD PREFER NOT TO RECEIVE A BOOK ON THEIR DOORSTEP EACH YEAR… SO WHAT? HOW HARD IS IT TO CHUCK THE THING IN THE RECYCLING BIN? STOP WHINING AND TRYING TO MAKE A BIG DEAL OUT OF NOTHING. RECEIVING A BOOK ON YOUR DOORSTEP ONCE A YEAR IS NO MORE ANNOYING THAN HAVING TO WATCH COMMERCIALS BETWEEN BREAKS IN A TV SHOW. IT’S THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND THE MAJORITY OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE USED TO THE CONTINUAL EXPOSURE TO VARIOUS MEDIAS PUSHING THEIR CLIENT’S PRODUCTS & SERVICES. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU PEOPLE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF THESE BUSINESS DIRECTORIES HAVE SOME SORT OF ALTERIOR MOTIVE (I.E. WINNING OVER MARKET SHARE FROM SENSIS=MONEY IN YOUR BACK POCKET)
IT IS ALSO OBVIOUS THAT THIS TRUELOCAL MOB ARE A DIRECT COMPETITOR OF THE YELLOW PAGES??? I’D NEVER EVEN HEARD OF TRUELOCAL UNTIL I PUNCHED IN THEIR WEBSITE JUST NOW. I DO NOT KNOW ANYBODY WHO USES ANYTHING BUT YELLOW PAGES, YELLOW ONLINE, OR GOOGLE TO FIND BUSINESSES (APART FROM WORD OF MOUTH).
AND BY THE WAY, I WOULD QUESTION ANY STATS YOU HAVE TO ‘PROVE’ THE CONTRARY, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY TRUELOCAL.
PFFT GOOD LUCK.
P.S. I BET THIS DOESN’T MAKE IT ONTO YOUR BLOG.
D Eddy of on Saturday Feb 27th, at 01:55 PM
