Every year a phone book arrives on my doorstep, and every year I throw it out. I don’t need it since the White Pages and the Yellow Pages have been available on the Internet. So every year I recycle it or throw it out or shred it in a fit of annoyance.
We asked the delivery man if he could skip delivering the phone book to us, but he refused. Turns out they get paid by each book they deliver, so they refuse to not deliver your phone book, even if you don’t want one.
What you need to do is phone Telstra to have your Phone Book canceled. It appears that Telstra/Sensis don’t have an online form or any other way of cancelling, so you have to phone them. The number to cancel is: 1800 810 211
What I’d like to know is when do we get to the point where we opt in to receiving the phone book instead of opting out? For all the phone books that are never used, I hate to think how much paper and money is being wasted.
Now all I need to do is find somewhere to recycle this useless thing.
Thank you to @mynameisbrett for tearing the Yellow Pages for me.
Hear, hear! I’ve asked myself the same question for years.
Comment by moose73 — September 20, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
And stealing my shirt :O
Comment by Zombie_Plan — September 20, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Haha pants
Comment by Alipants — September 20, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
Phone books make excellent kindling for a fire!
Comment by Telstra — September 21, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Agree Taryn!
It’s quite funny that I couldn’t even thought about cancelling the books. Whenever I received the books I thought I had to admit that I had to have the books.
Thanks for the number!
Comment by Minka — November 12, 2009 @ 10:34 pm