Comments on: Yellow Book deliveries are driving me crazy http://www.bostonreb.com/2009/01/yellow-page-deliveries-are-driving-me-crazy/ Boston real estate. Boston condos. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:57:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: j http://www.bostonreb.com/2009/01/yellow-page-deliveries-are-driving-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-2405 j Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:05:49 +0000 http://www.bostonreb.com/?p=12523#comment-2405 I live in a downtown building with six apartments and we received an unwanted delivery of forty-eight books. All forty-eight are still sitting in the doorway. It's shameful. I live in a downtown building with six apartments and we received an unwanted delivery of forty-eight books. All forty-eight are still sitting in the doorway.

It’s shameful.

]]> By: kenc http://www.bostonreb.com/2009/01/yellow-page-deliveries-are-driving-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 kenc Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:49:22 +0000 http://www.bostonreb.com/?p=12523#comment-2406 You can argue whether the books are of value to you or others, but one part of the stats you quoted from that website is totally incorrect. While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills. Not only that, as wood chips decompose, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas closely associated with global warming. You can argue whether the books are of value to you or others, but one part of the stats you quoted from that website is totally incorrect.

While the popular myth is that this industry is responsible for the neutering of forests, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills. Not only that, as wood chips decompose, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas closely associated with global warming.

]]> By: John Ford http://www.bostonreb.com/2009/01/yellow-page-deliveries-are-driving-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-2407 John Ford Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:36:56 +0000 http://www.bostonreb.com/?p=12523#comment-2407 I think your incident is one of several deceptive practices in place with the Yellow Pages/Yellow Book. I think your incident is one of several deceptive practices in place with the Yellow Pages/Yellow Book.

]]> By: South End Business Owner http://www.bostonreb.com/2009/01/yellow-page-deliveries-are-driving-me-crazy/comment-page-1/#comment-2408 South End Business Owner Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:39:25 +0000 http://www.bostonreb.com/?p=12523#comment-2408 As a business owner I am frequently hit with invoices from these yellow page companies for listings I never ordered. Some of these eventually become quite threatening, telling me to protect my credit rating and make my payment immediately. At first I thought that this would be illegal, but looking at the very tiny print on the back there is disclosure that businesses that didn't order listings or display ads should simply disregard the billing. I wonder how many Accounts Payable people simply send these companies a check ... As a business owner I am frequently hit with invoices from these yellow page companies for listings I never ordered. Some of these eventually become quite threatening, telling me to protect my credit rating and make my payment immediately. At first I thought that this would be illegal, but looking at the very tiny print on the back there is disclosure that businesses that didn’t order listings or display ads should simply disregard the billing.

I wonder how many Accounts Payable people simply send these companies a check …

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