A Problem With Those Phone Books
Written on July 27, 2007 – 10:22 am | by gaulardcom |
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I am having a little problem with those big, fat phone books with those pages that are yellow. Actually, I am not even sure that they have a phone directory in them anymore. I am hesitant to say pages that are yellow in reverse, because one of those money hungry phone book printers might come after me and try something.
Anyway, here is the problem…I have probably received around five of these big, fat wastes of paper this year alone. I am not sure of the number, but it is just ridiculous. I get these huge books with the yellow covers (all with a similar look and similar names, mind you) either stuffed in the mailbox or thrown on the ground at the base of the mailbox, shoved in a plastic bag.
Now, I never asked for these huge wastes of paper. All I do, is pick the book up and throw it in my recycling can. How many of these things do I need? What do they think…I have some shelve somewhere in the house with a stack of these books with yellow covers?
All these loser companies have their loser sales people out there hounding local businesses…bothering them day in and day out trying to get them to place little print ads. People used to look in these books before the internet came around, but now I think these companies need to face the fact that print is dying. Good thing. What a waste.
So here is my plea…people who are sending these big books with the yellow covers, please stop wasting paper and leave me alone. I don’t want to be invloved in your environmental catastrophe anymore.
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2 Responses to “A Problem With Those Phone Books”
By Paul on Jul 27, 2007 | Reply
I hear ya. They were digging around in an old land fill and found phone book that had been buried for 50 years still intact. Every year millions of these things get printed. I say they should out law them. Force the phone companies to put there directories on the web with free access. If I owned a business, I would not even consider advertising in one of those yellow things.
By alexis on Jul 30, 2007 | Reply
I recently have had the same issues…watching piles of them line the city of philadelphia….i blogged a little about it here.