Phone Book Nuisance

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 8:23 am

A note to the folks at Verizon and Yellow Book: people just aren’t interested in phone books anymore. Period. With the inevitable distribution of a new edition each year, these dated directories become nothing more than a nuisance. Indeed, most end up stacked on stoops or in trash heaps, while others are utilized as glorified doorstops.

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Tags: phone book, Trash

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NYC Rhymology

Is it just me or does your use of the word "funny" suggests an anti-environmental agenda? Anyway, recycled trees are still trees. Still precious.

Anonymous

The funny thing is that these books are made of recycled materials, so they are not tree-killers.

NYC Rhymology

A posting for these nuisance phonebooks at NYCRhymology.com. (This rhyme is close enough for hip hop, and that's good enough for me.) But damn those tree-killer phone directories irritate me--probably more of them on the streets than there are rats.

Ken Mac

advertising pays for the phonebooks. So who cares about killing a few million trees for something nobody uses...?

Bowery Boogie

I don't know anyone who uses them anymore. My apt building has the same problem. They use the pile of books to keep the door open sometimes.

Goggla

Does anyone use these books anymore? We get a stack of 20 in my apt building, which sits at the front door for months. Such a waste of paper.

EV Grieve

These will look nice in a landfill somewhere. Curious, too, the percentage of people who still have a landline.