City Hall
The Pile Grows
The pile of phone books in City Council member Mike O'Brien's office continues to grow.
(Context: O'Brien is asking Seattle residents to drop off unwanted phone books at his office. Dex, Seattle's primary phone book company, will eventually come to the office and pick them up. O'Brien is pushing to change the current "opt-out" system, which requires residents to ask Dex not to deliver books (and, in O'Brien's own experience, doesn't work) to an opt-in system, in which customers would have to ask for phone books instead of receiving them automatically. Lobbyists for the phone-book and paper industries are visiting the council from out of state tomorrow).
Dex hasn't showed up yet, and the last time I was in O'Brien's office, an aide was heading out to pick up another shipment. Here are the current piles:
(Context: O'Brien is asking Seattle residents to drop off unwanted phone books at his office. Dex, Seattle's primary phone book company, will eventually come to the office and pick them up. O'Brien is pushing to change the current "opt-out" system, which requires residents to ask Dex not to deliver books (and, in O'Brien's own experience, doesn't work) to an opt-in system, in which customers would have to ask for phone books instead of receiving them automatically. Lobbyists for the phone-book and paper industries are visiting the council from out of state tomorrow).
Dex hasn't showed up yet, and the last time I was in O'Brien's office, an aide was heading out to pick up another shipment. Here are the current piles:
