Thank you to whomever built this display and posted this message. We, “people of the Internets” have been thinking this practically since AOL 6.0 was released (and they’re just as wasteful as those damned CDs). If I contribute one thing to the world today, I hope for it to be that Bell & Yellow Pages catch wind of this and heed the advice. I know I’m not the only one that picks up the phonebook from the doormat when I get home and place it directly in the recycling bin.
…these certainly will never go out of style.
EXACTLY! I have tried to make them stop delivering them to me. But they never stop. They just won't stop!
Its still useful to keep one of these in the car, or even around the house. Despite the internet, I still use a phone book often enough.
Dear person who left this sign.
Not everyone has the Internet. Not everyone likes using the Internet to find a local plumber.
You can't use the Internet when your service provider crashes. You can't use the Internet when your fuse box explodes.
The Internet sucks for finding smaller local mom&pop shops that still primarily advertise through the Yellow Pages.
I do wish they would offer an option to opt out of receiving these; that would be the best solution in my opinion as there are STILL many people without internet. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true!! *gasp* I still find these very useful as well. Car, power outages – what you say? You have voice over internet phone, that's your mistake. I STILL use a landline. These things don't require electricity, imagine that. Save the trees!
Matt: Have you ever heard of Google Local or Yellowpages.com? All yellow pages ads are available online. Do you really think anyone pays nowadays to put ads in a phone book alone?
Oh and if your fuse box explodes then you call 1-800-GOOG-411 on your cell phone and ask Google to find you an electrician.
Phonebooks always "turn on". Phone Books do not crash. Some people like phone books. Calling 1-800-GOOG-411 is not ubiquitous common knowledge at this time. Prob never will be. The book is paid for by advertising and comes with your land line, it's part of what you get. Yes I agree, there SHOULD be an opt out but… just recycle the dang thing. Were these phone books donated to the stack or were they removed from the doorsteps (stolen) from others, or dumped by a lazy delivery person? Yellow pages are actually very effective advertising for certain categories. Like newspapers, it's a dying industry but don't pull the plug just yet.
It is good practice to tear them in half first, to demonstrate your rage and utter lack of impotence. If a guy who can tear phone books in half doesn't want any more phone books, you can bet your ass he won't get them.
Then what would I have to shoot .22 LR bullets into?
eh, i find yellow pages useful sometimes.
If you actually need a phone book they should let you order one over the internet. They are 100% worthless to me, and why produce something even if it's instantly getting thrown in the recycle bin? Just a waste.
They are fun to rip in half, to the bewilderment of others.
As a postal employee I have to deliver these phone books to residents who already get them from a private carrier and a competing phone book company. That's three phone books per customer that no one wants.
Some people do not have the internet, so you're wrong.
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We are finally in the the future. Stop sending us pieces of tress with ink on them!
perhaps an Opt – IN would be a better option.
I was telling friends about 800 free 411, but now 800 Goog 411
then my grandmother got an e-mail chain letter from a friend telling her about 800-Goog-411
she asked if I heard about it. I said yes I told you a over a year ago and programed it into your phone, its on your speed dial, just hold 4 and it'll dial. She blames her memory on old age.
"I STILL use a landline. These things don’t require electricity, imagine that. Save the trees!"
Beth:
I hate to break it to you, but phones do require electricity… it's kind of how they work and shit.
Uh, why is it that everyone that uses the Internet, thinks that everybody else does too??? I use the internet all day long, but I rarely use the online yellow pages… I use the book. And lots of people do NOT use the Internet… they don't even have a computer at home. So YES, there is still a use for these books, and yes, businesses still pay to advertise in them. I do, however pitch the fake ones from Yellowbook – I prefer the REAL Yellow Pages!
Same issue I have with the evening news when they say "see our website for more, blah blah blah"… well, if the listener doesn't have a computer, what are they supposed to run down to the library at 10:30pm to learn more about the topic??
Dear Matt and Jeanne,
Please grow up and realize how truly wrong paper yellow pages are. I don't care who you are or what your circumstances are, there are MUCH better, much faster and much more reliable ways to find places than an antiquated paper phone book. Even if you don't have internet (for when your "fuse box explodes"??) you still have internet on your iPhone, don't you? If not an iPhone, then certainly whatever phone you have. If not, then YOU need to upgrade yourself and get with modern times. No excuse.
Personally, I loathe recycling and everything it stands for (mainly, the make-work attitude of those in the recycling "industry") yet I refuse to accept paper phone books. I keep them in my car and rip out every single page, one by one, and enjoy littering the countryside (only at night, so I am not seen), proving to others just what a waste these book are.
This is real spam.
There should be a way to opt out of receiving the phone book, for all the people that simply never use one and idiots such as the creator of this sign that are so reliant upon gadgets and remotes to do everything up to wiping their bums for them. Seriously, heard of a power cut? Do these people have some new infallible type of internet connection that can never fail? Rather than waste paper you start up your computer, sit there while it churns through electricity, go on the web, search and sort through results to find the number of a local shop and repeat every time you need do so? Well done, kind of like building "clean" hybrid cars to save the planet.
To CantonBob,
Wow, talk about ignorance.
"Even if you don’t have internet (for when your “fuse box explodes”??) you still have internet on your iPhone, don’t you? If not an iPhone, then certainly whatever phone you have. If not, then YOU need to upgrade yourself and get with modern times. No excuse."
Because in these modern, economically stable times where nobody is out of work, every single soul out there has the means to run out and get them self an iPhone and plan. Christ, hard to believe you were willing to pull that silver spoon out of your mouth long enough to make such an ignorant statement.
I know. It's so frustrating.
PEOPLE. You can opt out of the Yellow Pages!
http://delivery.ypg.com/delivery/form.php
These books are NOT FREE. My company pays over 600$/month to advertise, and if they are not being used, not only are my dollars being wasted, the trees are being wasted, the ink, wasted man hours creating and delivering them… Plus my services to YOU go up.
To those of you who do not have internet – DIAL 411 from your phone – its called DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE! If you have a cell phone, send a text message to 46645 (spells GOOGL) and google will text you back with several numbers and addresses.
I'd say GET WITH THE 90's but we're ALREADY WAY PAST THAT.
I work at a 911 center and people can (and do) call us for information that is available in the phone book.
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