Do you get junk mail after adding a local listing?

[MrSem]

I'm curious if when anyone has submitted a new business citation, once it appears in Google, Bing, Yellow Pages, etc, do you notice if junk mail starts to flow in?

[Cesare.Marchetti]

I got it. Didn't really notice that with snail mail I guess this kind of advertisement technique is vanishing with time...and its not really worth the effort (to collect address from there and print and send stuff there)

[MrSem]

Most if not all the major business directories don't list a raw email address in the listing.  I was actually more referring to physical (snail mail) junk mail as the businesses physical address is listed (along with the phone number).  I did hear from one person that said they starting to get a few phone calls, not many, but got no junk mail after being listed on Superpages, Yellowpages, for about 3 months. So I guess that's encouraging.

[Cesare.Marchetti]

I didn't track it down to having added a local listing, but this makes actually sense. Crawlers of all sorts (spam, malware too) will crawl these directories and find your e-mail address there (if you have added one and its not spam protected) directly or then go to your website and find it there (again if its not spam protected).