My recycling was probably 25% phonebooks this week. I think we've reached a point where phonebooks should be a paid for item (outside of taxes). Nothing outrageous, maybe 25 cents, 50 cents, a dollar, anything to make people think about getting them - The same way that some grocery stores are now charging a small fee for bags. With the internet tubes, GPS, 411 (free 411 at that), do we really need to produce giant, heavy books that have to updated and reprinted every year. The phonebook might be as antiquated as the broom.
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And Google phone text searches to '46645'... this has replaced everything for me. It's like the mailman is saying "here, you throw this away, I got things to do."
Cool. I didn't know about that.
Phone books wont start to disappear until business owners stop paying to advertise in them. I guess they still generate revenue, but their demise is imminent.
@ brian Yeah, you're right....and that point has to be soon.
My phonebooks go directly from my front door to the trash. The last place I used one was casa Mackie in the dial-up days.
^^^(by trash, I obviously mean recycling bin for paper products)
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