Argh! Dex Yellow Pages! Again!

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Did anyone else who signed opt-out forms get the new DexPlus catalogs today?

This afternoon a white van with three males (one adult driver and two teen delivery boys, all Hispanic) drove through my neighborhood near Pratt Park, depositing white plastic bags carrying several pounds of DexPlus yellow page catalogs at front doors. I watched them fling the bags at my townhouse and the nine other houses around my unit and, as far as I know, at every house around here. When I went out and gave the bag back to the boy, he said “Sorry.” But the bag was at my doorstep later.  

I have filled out every fricking opt-out form, online and in print, asking to be removed from these yellow pages rosters. Hilariously, the new phone books themselves display on their covers this message: “To stop delivery of this or any other directory within the City of Seattle, go to seattle.gov/stopphonebooks.”

The people who drive the vans and who deliver these packages of useless garbage do not know or care about these forms. It makes me feel stupid for thinking the city could do anything about this.

0 thoughts on “Argh! Dex Yellow Pages! Again!”

  1. The new city ordinance calls for a fine up of up to $125 per book for yellow pages publishers who deliver to residents who said no with sufficient notice.

  4. And I was suprised that it worked. I am in a townhouse and all of the neighbors received them yesterdaybut I did not. Yeah!

  5. It was a red and white van. Ya gotta pay more attention. How you expect to be a decent witness if you mis details like that. The bottom half was red, top white.

    I thought for sure it was another gang of murdurers until I saw the dreaded phone books. Then I realized – hey, those are mexicans, working as usual. What a great people. Why can’t some of the locals be more like these probable “illegal” mexicans. I mean what is a crim anyway – delivering phone books or dealling drugs and killing folk. I’ll take a van full of mexicans over an older mercedes.

  6. We have not opted out of these deliveries, and hope to soon receive our copies. For those that opted out, yet still received them, well I can only hope your patience extends to walking those books out to your recycle bin.

  8. Whatever, get over it. Get of your high PC cloud of judgement and grace us everyday folk with some of your knowledge on political correctness. THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH

  9. and REJECTED! saying HEY! I DON’T WANT THIS! I OPTED OUT! The guy took it back, but delivered to the abandoned house next door. They were going so fast, and just blanketing the neighborhood willy-nilly.

    Chilo, thanks for your diplomacy, but it’s not about making an extra trip to the recycle bin. I’m more concerned about the wasted resources, and the disregard for the opting-out process. It’s a big FU from Dex.

  10. I was annoyed when I saw mine, but I did see this on the stopphonebooks link for complaints above, and realized I opted out well after May 16.

    Still receiving phone books?
    For your phone book preferences to take effect in 2011, you will need to submit requests by the following deadlines. Requests submitted after the deadline will take effect starting in 2012.

    May 16, 2011: DEX Seattle Metro and DEX Seattle Metro Plus

  11. Yes, I concur. It is a bit confusing though, because in one place it says that you just need to file 30 days before the delivery season. But, the SEASON started long before our deliveries.

    From the City of Seattle website:

    Still receiving phone books?

    For your phone book preferences to take effect in 2011, you will need to submit requests by the following deadlines. Requests submitted after the deadline will take effect starting in 2012.

    * May 16, 2011: DEX Seattle Metro and DEX Seattle Metro Plus
    * September 23, 2011: Greater Seattle Yellowbook
    * October 9, 2011: Seattle – Superpages and SnoKing-Seattle