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There are piles of Yellow Pages at the mailbox units in my community. Does anyone still use the phone book? I haven't used one in 10 years! They've been sitting there for 3 days and not 1 person has taken 1. How do they stay in business and at this point...isn't it just a waste of natural resources.
There are piles of Yellow Pages at the mailbox units in my community. Does anyone still use the phone book? I haven't used one in 10 years! They've been sitting there for 3 days and not 1 person has taken 1. How do they stay in business and at this point...isn't it just a waste of natural resources.
Been so long I can't remember. Maybe when we first moved here . . . 2002.
There are piles of Yellow Pages at the mailbox units in my community. Does anyone still use the phone book? I haven't used one in 10 years! They've been sitting there for 3 days and not 1 person has taken 1. How do they stay in business and at this point...isn't it just a waste of natural resources.
They stay in business because they somehow sell the ads.
I still find the yellow pages useful because it has *local* people in it. CraigsList has become an ocean of SPAM and scams. Google brings up too many hits from national companies who have carpet-bombed their webpages with city names like Charlotte.
The flip side though to the phone book, is finding many numbers are dead in the yellow pages from businesses that closed.
Those who post a web page address in their ads, are a helpful hybrid.
We have one of the small phone books that they hand out, its just the yellow pages. We've never used it, but just in case the internet is down or the power is out, we can still find a phone number we might need.
I posted something similar in the York / Lancaster SC section last week. I get mad when I see the complete waste of resources to print this craziness. Even if you don't have access to the internet, you can still call 411. It's like people writing checks at the grocery store.....OLD FASHIONED!!!
It is an enormous waste of resources, and that should be addressed. I get half a dozen a year, and they go straight into the recycling bin. I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of them, when delivered to major metro and suburban areas, meet the same fate.
Ours never even makes it into the house. Straight into the recycle bin.
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I posted something similar in the York / Lancaster SC section last week. I get mad when I see the complete waste of resources to print this craziness. Even if you don't have access to the internet, you can still call 411. It's like people writing checks at the grocery store.....OLD FASHIONED!!!
