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Posted on Oct 15 2010 by Daniel
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For the love of everything good and green in this world, I implore the crazy phone book manufacturers to STOP sending me 3 copies of your antiquated carbon database of people I don’t want to call. Seriously, do you know what year it is?  I haven’t let my fingers do the walking in more than a decade!

And until today, I thought there was no (easy) way to unsubscribe from their snail spam mailing lists.  But guess what!  In about 2 minutes, I was able to take myself off of several lists by going to the Yellow Pages Association website (I assume it’s some sort of evil association) and putting in my zip code to find a list of unsubscribe links.  I filled out a couple of forms, and now I’m hoping that I never have to lug another plastic wrapped dead-weight from my porch to the recycle bin again.  I don’t even open the stupid things.

While my neighbors sprain their backs or stub their toes on next year’s phone book dump-day, I’ll be out back consoling the trees over the wasteful deaths of their brethren.  Oh, the arbority?!

Go unsubscribe now.  Please.  For the seedlings….

via Consumerist

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