{"id":1277,"date":"2010-09-05T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2010-09-05T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T11:36:27","slug":"opt-out-of-paper-telephone-directories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/opt-out-of-paper-telephone-directories\/","title":{"rendered":"Opt Out of Paper Telephone Directories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may have flown under the radar for most people but if you&#8217;re like me you might find those paper telephone directories awfully wasteful especially when you can get a phone number off the web or call up one of those premium directory service numbers. Personally, I like to save myself a bit of dosh and find the number myself but others may prefer the other option.<\/p>\n<p>So really, I don&#8217;t have any need for paper phone books unless I go out of my way to keep a door ajar with one of them (which still wouldn&#8217;t happen). I haven&#8217;t even removed the plastic from them since they were thrown on the doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now there is a a way to end the waste (if Tony Abbott had anything to say about it).<\/p>\n<p>You can now go to the <a title=\"Directory Select\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directoryselect.com.au\/ds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Directory Select<\/a> website and you can cancel one or all of the phone books you receive. All you need to do is provide your postcode and then you are presented with a list of phone books you may receive with the option to cancel them for a period of three years. After that, you need to provide your address details, provide confirmation and you&#8217;re done and dusted.<\/p>\n<p>Also, just to remind you that you have cancelled your phone book deliveries, you&#8217;ll get a card dropped in your mailbox stating you have opted out. Furthermore, toward the end of the three year exclusion period you&#8217;ll also get an e-mail letting you know your exclusion will expire unless you choose to continue to opt out.<\/p>\n<p>So if you feel like saving a bit of paper, consider cancelling your phone books &#8211; I will be for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may have flown under the radar for most people but if you&#8217;re like me you might find those paper telephone directories awfully wasteful especially when you can get a phone number off the web or call up one of those premium directory service numbers. Personally, I like to save myself a bit of dosh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/opt-out-of-paper-telephone-directories\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[225,894,18],"tags":[896,895,2353],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-search","category-sensis","category-technology","tag-directory-select","tag-phone-book","tag-sensis","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}