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Mfalconieri
January 5, 2009 5:23 PM
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That title makes no sense.

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Mfalconieri
January 5, 2009 9:27 PM
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@mookiemookie: Thank you mookiemookie and Junkmail, I thought someone at the consumerist was still sipping on eggnog.

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junkmail
January 5, 2009 5:30 PM
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@Mfalconieri: Actually it does. Giving somebody the \"what for\" is another way of saying you're reading them the riot act, giving them the straight skinny, the facts of the matter, the what's up, etc. etc.

\"'give what for'; occ. 'what's what.' (With dative.) To beat, thrash; scold, reprimand: coll., the former C. 19-20, the latter C.20 and gen. jocular\" (\"Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English\")

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gparlett
January 5, 2009 5:27 PM
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When I lived in rural america I got a phone book, with white pages (residential) blue pages (goverment) and yellow pages (commercial), and it was quite useful. Now that I live a major metropolis (Dallas TX) I only get the yellow pages, no directory listings at all.

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Jeremy82465
January 5, 2009 8:37 PM
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@gparlett:


I too live in Dallas, and its odd. When I didnt live in quite a big city we got one a year, updating what had changed. Now we get them every 2 months maybe. I am so tired of them. I stop picking them up personally, I dont know who in my house does but they usually sit for a good couple weeks.

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balthisar
January 5, 2009 5:28 PM
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Phone book is good when there's no power.

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Hooray4Zoidberg
January 5, 2009 5:35 PM
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@balthisar: There is always 411 in a phone number emergency.

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Miguel Valdespino
January 5, 2009 7:04 PM
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@Hooray4Zoidberg: or the free variants like 800-GOOG-411, 800-FREE-411, etc. Why give the phone company their nickel and dime when you can dial a couple more numbers?

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balthisar
January 5, 2009 9:00 PM
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@Miguel Valdespino: Actually it was during our last power outage that I realized I didn't have a number to call the power company, because I'd thrown out all of the phone books. After scratching my head for a while, it was GOOG411 that I remembered. Problem with the power company, though, is that Google had hundreds of listings for all of the substations, departments, bill payment centers, and so on!

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HogwartsAlum
January 5, 2009 9:36 PM
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@balthisar:

Our utility company gave everyone a refrigerator magnet with the number to call. But that was because they had to put a new number in, to handle all the calls during the January 2007 ice storm.

Personally, I had it memorized because I had to call it 400,000 times. I finally got through by waiting until midnight.

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lannister80
January 5, 2009 7:46 PM
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@Miguel Valdespino: Nickel and dime? Doesn't 411 cost like $2 now?

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rpm773
January 5, 2009 5:29 PM
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I liked it when the phone book company calls to confirm if the obsolete monstrosity we never ordered showed up on our door step.

I usually reply with \"Well, I put a large yellow book into the recycle bin last week, if that's what you're talking about.\"

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brainswarm
January 6, 2009 7:27 AM
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@rpm773: I tell them the truth: I let my rabbit rip it apart.

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DePaulBlueDemon
January 5, 2009 8:56 PM
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@rpm773:

So they drop garbage on your doorstep and then call you to confirm you received it?

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rpm773
January 5, 2009 10:16 PM
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@DePaulBlueDemon: Yup. I actually suppose it's to allow them to check up on the quality of their hired delivery help. But I use it as a chance to get a few digs in on the product.

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Brie
January 5, 2009 5:30 PM
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I recycled our phone books. MrTheExit was horrified until he saw our ten-year-old Google up the number he was looking for.

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darkrose
January 5, 2009 5:33 PM
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@MissedTheExit: Same here. Goes from the doorstep to the recycle bin. Does not even enter my house, and I just dump the whole thing, bag and all in the bin.

I has internet-fu. Everything I need is right online.

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KyleOrton
January 5, 2009 5:56 PM
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@darkrose: Next time, try to use it once before throwing it. It's a lot like building a log cabin with hand tools only less satisfying and without the exercise.

\"Look at me, I can find a pizza place without witchcraft!\"

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Miguel Valdespino
January 5, 2009 7:07 PM
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@MissedTheExit: And of course, the phone books update less often than Google. I've heard that about 0.75% of numbers go bad between when a phone book is compiled and whn it's delivered. And it's potentially much higher by the end of the year.

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MrBryan
January 5, 2009 5:38 PM
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Such a waste. My local post office always has a mountain of these things in the lobby that people don't want to take home.

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nicemarmot617
January 5, 2009 5:41 PM
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They're useful if you live in a more rural area. I found when I lived in rural Wyoming that people would not necessarily be listed online, but they were still in the phone book.

However they are utterly useless in big metro areas. You should see the stacks of them in NYC apartment buildings - the deliverers usually can't get past the lobby, so they just dump them all there. And no one ever takes one so they just sit there collecting dust.

Not to mention it would take about a 20-pound phone book to be comprehensive in the NYC area...

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BeastMasterJ
January 6, 2009 7:47 AM
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@nicemarmot617: Rural Wyoming! Hey, That's where I live now!!!

In an area where most of your referals are word-of-mouth, a phone book is just kinda useless as opposed to completely useless.

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Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!)
January 5, 2009 6:50 PM
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@nicemarmot617: Yes. In a smaller metro area - 300,000 - I'm not totally anti-phone-book. It's pretty comprehensive, some smaller businesses aren't online, and it has menus for almost every restaurant in the city. But there are only TWO that serve the area and they come at the same time, so I can recycle the bad one, keep the good one, and not worry about it until next year.

What I actually find much more useful is a city services directory that city hall publishes and puts in the welcome basket and hands out at city hall. It has numbers for things like code enforcement, voter registration, animal control, animal shelter, trash pickup, water problems, electricity issues, etc. And it has some basic instructions that help save me time (\"Call animal control for this kind of animal, but the pound for that kind of animal.\" \"No trash pick-up on the following holidays\" and that kind of thing.) That I keep very handy, it's often much faster than looking things up online, plus all the handy extra info. But it's probably no more than 40 pages.

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HogwartsAlum
January 5, 2009 9:41 PM
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@Eyebrows McGee:

Hey, that city services thing sounds really neat. I wish I had one of those.

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Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!)
January 5, 2009 10:02 PM
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@HogwartsAlum: It can't cost them much to produce, and I bet it saves them thousands of phone calls asking simple questions. It knows stuff like when yard waste pickup begins and ends, when I can and can't park on the street after snow, who to call with this or that kind of question about my property taxes, all kinds of useful oddments! It also lists which offices are in what buildings (recorder of deeds, etc.) and which functions are city vs. county.

They also list all the various utility vendors that provide service w/in the city, so, first off, you get a one-glance look at who provides high-speed internet and secondly, you don't have to go dig up a bill to find the number to call. :)

I honestly find it considerably more useful than the city website.

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jliptak
January 5, 2009 5:45 PM
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Qwest is not Dex, the article linked does not say Qwest is paying bloggers, it says Dex is.

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chris_d
January 7, 2009 5:57 AM
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@jliptak:
Dex was sold several years ago to Donnelley Marketing. [www.rhdonnelley.com]
Qwest no longer owns it. That said, there were a stack of phone books at the front of my apartment complex recently. Don't know if they're still there or not.

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Sam Glover
January 5, 2009 5:49 PM
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@jliptak: You are right, but also, from DexKnows.com:

Dex publishes the AT&T Real Yellow Pages in Illinois and NW Indiana, the EMBARQ™ Yellow Pages, and the Dex© Yellow Pages (as the official publisher of Qwest®).

I don't know what that means, exactly, but I don't think I was completely off base.

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mac-phisto
January 5, 2009 5:48 PM
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i get enough phone books on my porch every year to build a play fort out of them. i'm not really sure why - there's only one door, one mailbox & one driveway. still, every year, i end up with a half dozen or more all over my front yard.

i've tried getting them to stop before with no success. it's ok. i've learned to accept it. besides, i was thinking of adding an addition to the fort this year.

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Con Seannery
January 6, 2009 8:40 PM
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@mac-phisto: I'm thinking about building a wall out of them to keep the phone book chuckers out.

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theutopian
January 5, 2009 5:51 PM
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Phonebook?

Haven't used one since I got an iPhone.

What a waste of trees.

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ds
January 6, 2009 9:50 PM
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@theutopian: Nice haiku, though.

Phonebook? Haven't used
once since I got an iPhone.
What a waste of trees.

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kaptainkk
January 5, 2009 9:01 PM
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@theutopian: Agree that it's a total waste of trees, but man it took an iPhone for you to stop using a phone book? Where have you been?

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samurailynn
January 5, 2009 7:24 PM
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@theutopian: I stopped using phonebooks before the iPhone was even a concept.

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KyleOrton
January 5, 2009 5:53 PM
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I'm going to use this post as a soapbox of annoyance against those Yellowbook ads. Are they that insecure that they can't advertise a service they offer and benefits over competitors?

If they actually showed someone using their service the reaction would be \"Oh, like Google but with more ads.\"

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KristinaBeana
January 5, 2009 6:41 PM
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@KyleOrton: I run a private, internal users only library - but - one of the vendors I use has sold our information and I get weekly phone calls from YelloBook trying to get us to buy ad space. Every week I tell them to stop calling, we are a nonprofit, non-public entity and to take us off their list, and then we get called again...


So I will gladly join you on the soapbox, but on the stop be annoying about getting people to pay for your ads side.

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sleze69
January 5, 2009 5:54 PM
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www.bigyellow.com


I haven't used a phone book in probably 6 years.

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failurate
January 5, 2009 5:54 PM
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But... it comes with free appetizers, discount oil changes, and 2 for 1 deals on everything from greens' fees to pizza.

I don't want them gone for good. The web is great and all, but it's always good to have a second source for info, even if it is as rudimentary as a phone book.

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failurate
January 5, 2009 6:00 PM
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@failurate: And should there ever be an electronic information melt down, without the phone book, how am I going to find someone to groom my dog, for half price?

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KyleOrton
January 5, 2009 8:27 PM
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@failurate: In that situation, I'd find the nearest out-of-work web programmer and offer shareware versions of Duke Nukem in exchange for services (like dog washing).

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gnubian
January 5, 2009 5:57 PM
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The last time I got \"spammed\" with a new phone book, the \"distributor\" made the mistake of throwing it at my storm door while I was in my living room ... I ran outside, complained at him to take it back, but he continued to walk back to the van full of phone books .. I think it scared the 3 people who were feeding the phonebooks out of the back of the van when my copy flew unexpectedly back at them ... ;>

BTW, if the power is out, my internet is down .. if my internet is down, my vonage doesn't work .. so whether or not I have a physical phone book makes no difference. Worst case scenario is I look up a phone number via my cellphone .....

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Keavy_Rain
January 6, 2009 2:19 PM
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@gnubian: Same here. I use the Googles for all my phone numbers. Although, unlike you I have Comcast for my phone service (Don't laugh. My apartment complex has a contract with them so I have no other choice.)

I understand there are those out there that want their phone books, just like their are those that want the PennySaver and Val-Pak. All I ask is people, like me, who choose to not recieve these items be given a way to opt-out of receiving them.

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Mr. Bungle
January 5, 2009 6:00 PM
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I know for a fact that the people who deliver phone books pile them up in certain places that they know do not need them. I used to work for a phone book company and they would pay delivery people by the book. We also used to get phone calls that there were whole bundles put in dumpsters.

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varro
January 6, 2009 12:27 AM
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@Mr. Bungle: I did that over 10 years ago, but never just ditched the books - but if there was an obviously vacant house, it still got the books, and if there was an apartment building with buzzer entry, all the books went into the front hall.

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azzy
January 5, 2009 6:15 PM
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I guess I'll have to take the other side of the argument. We only get two phone books per year, and find them useful - if only for the coupons of restaurants in town.

I'd prefer if they left out all of the non-commercial listings. I also see how it's a huge waste of resources, and would also prefer if the coupons were available online.

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dreamsneverend
January 5, 2009 6:16 PM
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Phonebooks need to go poof... heck I just send a text to google for phone numbers these days.

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blackmage439
January 5, 2009 6:21 PM
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Feh. At my apartment complex there are about 6 buildings I believe. At each building, at every yearly delivery of books, AT&T drops a freaking palette of books in the entryway. A few are taken, but most just sit there for a month. I doubt AT&T comes back to pick them up; I assume they end up in the dumpsters.

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Nytmare
January 5, 2009 6:27 PM
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I not only get multiple phone books dumped by the mailbox, one of them also publishes a small auxiliary addendum to go with the large main book. I just don't see how anything past one large book would ever get looked at.

You know what else is annoying? Takeout menu spam.

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West Coast Secessionist
January 6, 2009 9:28 PM
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@nytmare: No!! I love the lil' phone book they give out along with the main one! The big one is just too big. When I need a phone book, which is rarely, a little one is perfect. And it doesn't take up any space compared to the big one.

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ExtraCelestial
January 5, 2009 6:30 PM
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Well since print media is dead, I use it to line the bottom of my bird's cage. So I actually do find them to be somewhat useful.

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KyleOrton
January 5, 2009 8:29 PM
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@TinkishDelight: I used each sheet as a paper plate in college.

1. Make sandwich on page.
2. Eat sandwich.
3. Turn page.

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bluewyvern
January 6, 2009 8:31 AM
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@KyleOrton: That got a LOL.

And hey, when you're done -- you have a souvenir Book of Meals you can keep next to your scrapbook!

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kmiles
January 5, 2009 8:19 PM
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@TinkishDelight: Are you in need of any more? I just bought a house in MN and it's like the phone book people's hey-day when someone new moves in. I think in the two months we've been there, I've received 15 phonebooks (no joke.)

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Crabby Cakes
January 5, 2009 6:31 PM
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I just went to count the number of phonebooks currently sitting in the recycling area at my office. 13. And while I was away from my desk to count, another 2 arrived. I swear, if you turn your back for one minute, they spontaneously clone.

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redandjonny
January 5, 2009 6:34 PM
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Driving a web-blogging is dangerous.

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TheSpatulaOfLove
January 5, 2009 6:34 PM
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Phonebooks are especially useful when packing items for shipping, storage, etc.

I'm also stock piling them in my basement for the impending apocalypse. They will be a great heat source!

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oneliketadow
January 5, 2009 6:37 PM
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In Colorado the phone companies have said that the PUC (Public Utilities Commission) forces them to deliver phone books, not sure if it's true or not.

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mebaman
January 5, 2009 6:52 PM
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While Mr. Kohler's goals are admirable, I suspect that what's truly holding him up is the First Amendment. While it's not impossible to draft a legal ordinance to control the problem, the inevitable lawsuit often drains city resources and causes legal headaches. The following cases are illustrative of the complications involved in prohibiting the dissemination of phonebooks and other circulars on private property:


Tillman v. American Distribution Services, 224 A.D.2d 79, 80 (N.Y. App. 1996)


New Jersey Citizen Action v. Edison Township et. al., 797 F.2d 1250, 1258-1259 (3d Cir. 1986)


Statesboro Publishing Co. v. city of Sylvania, 516 S.E.2d 296, 298 (Ga. 1999)


Ad World, Inc. v. Township of Doylestown, 672 F.2d 1136 (3d Cir. 1982)


Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 163 (1939)

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CityGuySailing
January 5, 2009 6:59 PM
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Years ago, the local newspaper started dropping the daily newspaper off in my driveway. Unfortunately, we did not want the paper, and didn't read it, and the papers were starting to pile up. I consulted with an attorney friend, and came up with an unusual solution. I wrote a letter which I faxed and then sent certified mail to the paper which notified them that I was operating a business which was to recycle papers deposited in my driveway (offer) and for them to utilize my business services, all they had to do was to drop off identifiable papers with their company name on the papers (acceptance). The fee for this would be $5.00 per day, billable weekly. Failure to pay would result in legal action to collect, attorney's fees additional. Delinquent accounts 30 days past due would be refered to the local sheriff's department for theft of services. The contract was good boilerplate supplied by my attorney, and all I had to do was tweak minor verbiage. Wouldn't you know, that the day after I faxed it to the paper, the deliveries stopped.

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Nathan Curde
January 5, 2009 7:09 PM
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Well I for one don't need the phone books that arrive on my door step every few months. Along with putting an end to these books I would like to stop all the advertisements that get tossed on my driveway each week. Enough with the litter. I have to pick three or four of these up on any given weekend. And they have taken to appearing under the cover of darkness. Please tell me there is some way to make it stop.

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ChrisC1234
January 5, 2009 7:17 PM
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I've seen worse. After Katrina, in Slidell LA, I saw phone books delivered to the slabs of all of the apartment complexes that had been completely wiped away. I really should have called the newspapers. I can see the headlien already: \"I have nothing left, but at least I've got a phone book!\"

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Con Seannery
January 6, 2009 8:49 PM
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@ChrisC1234: Maybe they thought you could use them to rebuild?

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HungryTuna
January 5, 2009 7:26 PM
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Phonebooks don't annoy me as much as those Supermarket Circulars that are tossed in front of my house. I get 3-4 a week and they go right in the trash (I refuse to take them out of the bag to recycle).


I especially enjoy collecting them after it rains..


Any tips on how to get those stopped?

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Cyclokitty
January 5, 2009 7:34 PM
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The only use I'd get out of a phone book is if I used it for paper maché.

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CaptZ
January 5, 2009 7:42 PM
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I called the cops on a delivery truck dropping phonebooks in my neghborhood.....they came out and made them pick up all the phone books. I don't really know if the cop knew the law on that or not, but the next day, the phone books were back again. I have also chased the delivery van down and handed them back the books they left me and told them not to litter on my property ever again. Bah....never works....I must get a dozen or so phone books a year. Quite a waste of money....

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TouchMyMonkey
January 5, 2009 7:50 PM
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Phone books are one of the more useful dead-tree articles out there. I use mine all the time. It is usually more convenient than turning on and logging into my computer just to look up a phone number. People really need to use the right tool for the right job.

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jwissick
January 5, 2009 11:06 PM
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@HurtsSoGood: Ever hear of sleep mode? It takes just a second for the computer to wake up...

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Squeezer99
January 5, 2009 8:38 PM
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i like getting a printed phone book. its useful for finding contractors when something breaks in my house, part suppliers when i'm looking for something for one of my cars, etc.

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squatchie44
January 5, 2009 8:54 PM
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I like phone books and think everyone should get one.


Disclaimer: My job entails verifing information to be published in phone books.

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MercuryPDX
January 5, 2009 9:07 PM
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Not in it, and don't use it.

My paper recycling bin is on my front porch for a reason: Religious flyers, \"drive-by\" landscapers and phonebooks from at least four different providers.

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Triborough
January 5, 2009 9:10 PM
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I have no problem about getting the real Yellow Pages, it is the \"Yellow Book\" that I have a problem with. It is the one that people have to pay to be listed in, while the real phone company Yellow Pages lists everyone if you want to pay you get an ad or spruced up listing.

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Anonymous
January 5, 2009 10:20 PM
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There's just one caveat, Verizon phonebooks are published and owned by IdeaArc. Verizon sold off there phone book division a few years ago.

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PølάrβǽЯ
January 5, 2009 10:38 PM
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I have Google on my PC and Blackberry. What the hell would I do with a phonebook? The ones in my rural area are too thin to use as a booster for my 4-year-old anyway.

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failurate
January 5, 2009 10:43 PM
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We are rapidly closing in on repeating \"The Lost Library of Alexandria\", as people forget how to use books, they fall out of print, things go electronic, electronic things break down, become obsolete, knowledge is lost forever.

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Craysh
January 5, 2009 10:49 PM
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I think Ed Kohler has the right idea, just on too limited of a scale.
We should find the home of the bosses of these companies, and dump as many of the phone books as we can find on their doorsteps!
Imagine if we could get enough to completely box them into their house lol
Would it be illegal to pick up other peoples phone books? I mean it's not mail so it's not tampering...
Hell, it could be considered a public service!

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jwissick
January 5, 2009 11:09 PM
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@Craysh: Now that is an idea I like! Or just dropping them off infront of the building in a 30 foot high pile! We would need some seriously industrial dumptruckage though. Or maybe have a huge bon fire in the parking lot with the books.

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Scott Moore
January 5, 2009 11:17 PM
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I invite all those who are interested in opting out of receiving phone book spam to join the W.U.P.A.S.S. group on facebook. We are the Wasteful Unwanted Phonebook Action Super Society.

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Judge_Smails
January 6, 2009 12:13 AM
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I listened to one of the yellow page sales pitches by phone several years ago.


She goes: \"....and it's only $67.00 PER MONTH. For just that low MONTHLY price you can expose your business blah, blah, blah. And because it's only $67.00 PER MONTH, etc....\"


I go: \"OK, I'll try it for a MONTH.\"


She goes: \"uh, uh, well, no... You see, you can't only do it for a month....\"


I went: CLICK.

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Justifan
January 6, 2009 8:00 AM
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whats the big deal, toss it in a bonfire everyonce in a while. its free:P

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atrixe
January 6, 2009 3:05 PM
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While house-sitting for my parents late last month, they received 2 new phone books. They were tossed onto the driveway on December 23rd. I knew that their next-door neighbors were out of town, so I collected their phone books as well.

What bothered me most was the timing. December 23rd? Quite a few people are out of town right around Christmas, and it was pretty obvious who was on vacation just by looking around to see which driveways still had phone books in them a day or two later. It was like a big beacon that screamed \"break in an burglarize me!\". This was a nice neighborhood with pretty much no empty houses due to foreclosure or anything of that sort.

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January 6, 2009 4:22 PM
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I live in San Fran and I used the phone book to order pizza just the other night. Much faster as my laptop was off. I also used it last time I needed my home painted. Worked great. It's not dead yet. If you've ever moved to a new city, you'll find there is no better source of info than the yellowpages. I hope it's still there next time I move.

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Con Seannery
January 6, 2009 8:51 PM
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I make a point not to do business with companies that advertise in phone books.

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flyromeo3
January 7, 2009 3:40 PM
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wow,...people surely are angry. Its a friggin phone book people. Its not sucking the life out of you or asking for your social security number.


Take that damn book like I do and use it to light your fireplace with!

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