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a “special” delivery would have to be arranged or just a note telling the person they had to go pick it up at the post office and I am SURE the city of lets say, Boston, isn’t gonna want to have to store all of those things for people who will most likely not come to get it. The other issue is the fact they might end up having to pay more because the average city mailperson can’t carry large books with them for say, 20 houses like they do for mail. (most times people get a “route” and get paid for how many people are on that route much like newspaper delivery people) to ship the average phone book via commercial costs (according to the scale here at work) it would cost about 5-8 bucks depending on the bulk discounts. With inflation, I figure local pay for the same phonebook would be about $.50 – $.75 per book. I thought of this myself and have delivered phonebooks 10+ years ago in Vermont…yeah not that heavy…Sending via the post office would cost them 8-9 times more (granted this is a crude…very crude estimation) to send via the post office than to pay someone to drop it off. It just doesn’t like this particular law.įiled Under: lawsuit, seattle, yellow pages Perhaps I’m missing something? In the meantime, the group actually says that it’s not against letting people opt-out, and is actually creating a website to let people do just that.
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Now, I’m a pretty big First Amendment supporter, but I’m not sure how a bar on dropping a phone book on someone’s property - at their request - is a free speech violation. The ordinance also mandates that publishers turn over consumers’ private information to the City of Seattle and imposes obligatory cover language dictated by the city government.
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The Seattle ordinance unfairly singles out the Yellow Pages industry with regulations and fees that are not imposed on other media, including discriminatory license fees for the right to publish and unprecedented “advance recovery fees” that previously have been limited to toxic or hard-to-recycle materials. The suit also claims that the Seattle ordinance unlawfully interferes with interstate commerce and violates the privacy rights of Seattle residents… The complaint… asserts that the ordinance enacted last month violates the First Amendment, which prohibits government from licensing or exercising advance approval of the press, from directing publishers what to publish and to whom they may communicate, and from assessing fees for the privilege of publishing. However, the Yellow Pages Association has now sued the city, claiming that this law is a First Amendment violation: Apparently, the city of Seattle passed a law recently creating a “do-not-deliver” list for residents, that would bar phone book providers from delivering the books to their homes. That’s what an awful lot of people do these days. But I picked it up and walked it straight over to the paper recycling bin, where I deposited it. I honestly couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen one. Thu, Nov 18th 2010 10:26am - Mike MasnickĪ few weeks ago, I walked out my front door to see a phone book dropped on the front step.
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