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Updated: 9:29 AM Mar 3, 2010
Colorado Lawmakers Kill Phone Book Bill
You will still get a phone book every year; bill to stop delivery dies.
Posted: 6:44 AM Mar 3, 2010Reporter: AP |
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Colorado lawmakers have killed a bill that would have allowed people to stop getting telephone books delivered for five years.
A House committee rejected the proposal Tuesday after directory publishers argued they're already stopping delivery for up to three years to people who request it online. While they said they had no incentive to send books to people who don't want them, unionized publisher employees feared the bill could cost jobs.
Democratic Rep. Mark Ferrandino of Denver introduced the bill because more people are looking up numbers online and throw their phone books away.
But rural phone provider Century Link said phone books piling up on doorsteps and in apartment buildings is an urban problem and shouldn't lead to statewide legislation.
Copyright 2010 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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I'm all for keeping jobs, but how about giving me a personal choice before you litter all over my neighborhood! DEX (the Qwest directory) came to my office trying to deliver THIRTY phone books. We needed ONE. Countless OTHER "phone books" (read, advertisers) come to us unsolicited and without an opportunity to decline (other than recycling or tossing them in the trash). Are we GREEN or NOT?! "...rural phone provider Century Link said phone books piling up on doorsteps and in apartment buildings is an urban problem and shouldn't lead to statewide legislation". "...directory publishers argued they're already stopping delivery for up to three years to people who request it online. While they said they had no incentive to send books to people who don't want them, unionized publisher employees feared the bill could cost jobs".
They should stop delivery to everyone, but we don't need the government to say so. If someone actually wants a book they can order one, for free of course. I can't even remember how many years it has been since I looked through a phone book.
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