How many Telephone Books does one need?

[DuneAHH]

They're breeding. I got yet ANOTHER one today.

There are better things to do with one's time (like organize a Floridian sock drawer) than be forced into figuring out how to make use of such an unnecessary excess. GRRRR.

 

[happy2Bme]

They're breeding. I got yet ANOTHER one today.

There are better things to do with one's time (like organize a Floridian sock drawer) than be forced into figuring out how to make use of such an unnecessary excess. GRRRR.

me too......it'll find its way to the rubbish bin; first come, first saved....all others be damned.

 

[heartbren]

phone books

Hah! When I got home yesterday I saw another phone book by my door. I really can't figure this out. Now I am getting all of these little phone books and one with I disc (like I am going to take the time to look at it). I've been here four months and have gotten more phone books than I have room to even put them. It is such a waste because I hate to throw them away, but I don't need or want so many.

 

[30ABandMan]

They actually put a new, identical one next to the one I left hanging outside to show them I already had one. This is number three! What underground syndicate controls this stuff???

 

[scooterbug44]

The phonebooks are ridonkulous, but the computerized call on a Saturday morning to check if I GOT my phonebook is a whole new level of crazy!

I was laughing because the computer calling didn't understand WHY my answering machine (I was in the tub) wasn't pressing 1 or 2 to say whether the phone book arrived, actually sounded confused, and repeated the whole message 2 more times! :roll:

 

[Beach Runner]

It's just not green! All I really need is the South Walton phonebook that I can get inside the entrance to Publix. I really don't need multiple Ft. Walton/Destin and multiple Panama City phone books. Our phone providers should allow us to opt out of paper phone books and give those of us who are lucky enough to have Internet an online access to the content of these phone books.

The most maddening thing about these phonebooks is that they are thrown into our yards like litter, and if it rains, they become unusable.

I am on the Sustainability Council where I teach. We are doing everything we can to make our campus paperless, including phone directories. Of course, there is still a footprint from online activities. BTW our campus has won awards for its sustainability efforts.

 

[sunspotbaby]

Call the police and complain that they are littering. If I threw something, repeatedly, in your yard, it would be littering, wouldn't it?

I did call the S.O. once when they were walking through yards to deliver them. They said I could file a complaint but there was nothing they could really do to stop them. I would like to get a list of all advertisers in them and send emails to all of them letting them know where those books end up and that i'll not be visiting or using their business until this stops. I've done the opt-out thing, but that didn't work either, because I still get them. It is littering. I'm sure many many empty houses have stacks of them sitting out by the mailbox rotting.

 

[heartbren]

Phone books

It is not bad enough we get so many phone books and can pick them up and do what we want with them, but I live next to a foreclosed house and they are piling up over there. I would not mind picking them up, but they are all wet. The is in bad enough disrepaire without a pile of wet phone books sitting in the yard also. What a waste! It is so obvious the place is empty because no one would want to live in it in its present condition unless they are throwing the phone books for any vagrants thay may live there!

 

[Matt J]

I love the History channel. Here's some phone book statistics for you:

The Library of Congress has a historical collection of US phone books totaling over 124,000 and they receive 8,000 submissions every year.

I guess the moral of the story is that sowallers should stop sending their phone books to the Library of Congress. :funn:

 

[kathydwells]

Well it is about time!!!

Companies Yank Cord on Residential Phone Books - ABC News