Why in this day and age are we still getting phone books printed and sent out to everyone twice whether we want it or not? I got one delivered to my house and at my office building. There are 3 different companies, and they dropped off more phone books than we have employees! We have about 20 employees here and they dropped off 25 phone books? Seriously WTF, stop the insanity! Nobody uses those anymore, internet is available, stop cutting trees for this nonsense. —Waste Not, Want Not

This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.

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  1. agreed; or have them by order, like Sears catalogues, for the folks who don’t have computers (elderly, impoverished, etc. etc.)

    The only thing is the phonebook folks would probably lose money from their advertisers, but yes. Good bitch. Call the company and tell them.

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  2. There’s a pile of them in my lobby. I might actually take one just so it isn’t thrown out, and maybe it would be good for putting a hot pot on top of. I can literally only think of one situation where I would use it: ordering food during a power outage, and even then I already have menus with phone numbers. I still think they are necessary for alot of older people, but an apartment building full of rich foreign students and young professionals isn’t going to have a lack of computers and internet.

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  4. If you get too many books, then call the company and they will pick up the extra.

    I use the phone book all the time. I have one at home, the office, and my car.

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  5. We’ll it’s obvious. The only way they make money if for people to read the adverts, which are in the books. They haven’t capitalized too well on the internet, and their main source of income is in jeopardy.

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  10. that’s too funny hugo, it was no pun, i like the oceans…get outta my head ya weirdo^^

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  12. They tried to drop off 10(!!!) for my office of 7 people. I told them to leave ONE. They said “Oh, we have to leave 10 or none.” So I said “Fine, we don’t need any”. So then he left just one…

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  13. better to have more than less o.p., or you would be bitching about that instead. i got a half dozen extra here if anyone wants them.

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  14. I didn’t get one.
    & thanks those of you who offered…I don’t want one.
    THere are very few numbers I can’t find on my phone/internet connection…hell it gives you the number the address & when I ask for it, a little map pops up on my phone & shows me where the hell it is !

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  15. I use phone books. I don’t have a PC in every room of my place, nor does anyone I know….. so being able to walk to the counter, turn the pages and find a number I wouldn’t normally have stored in my phone is much easier than taking a flight of stairs and firing up a browser to search. Just wait until Betelgeuse goes Supernova and all that stored up electromagnetic energy is thrust toward the Earth causing a technology-as-we-know-it-ending EMP thereby forcing us to return to the 1920’s.

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  17. “I use the phone book all the time. I have one at home, the office, and my car.” Your car, that is so ghetto.

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  18. About 30 arrived at our downtown office…..and the cleaning staff simply loaded them on a trolley and took them straight to the recycle bin. Problem solved. Hell you can get the Canada411 app on your iphone for free and use that. Who even uses these books?

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