Has anyone ever noticed that some of the most messy times of year in the area is when phone books are delivered? I was riding around today and noticed just how many are still laying there from Thursday. If you look long enough, sometimes you can see the phone books from the last delivery. Is there a "no delivery list" for phone books? Seems like it would be more "green" if they wern't just laying in a ditch. I personally don't use one from home.
Same here. I put mine right in the back of the truck to be carried to the dump. I agree, why so many?
I wish they would put a sticky note on your door or something that they've delivered books to your residence. They delivered a couple of phone books to my house and put them at the side door. I rarely go out the side door. It rained the next day and got the books wet.
They deliver in my area by throwing them out of a vehicle at or around the mailbox. They generally stay where they come to rest. I remember a couple of years ago seeing them being delivered on 1010. The van was driving at about 55 mph and phone books were just flying out the side door.
I seem to remember a proposal to get the phone companies to stop delivering so many of them, or to set up a list of addresses not to deliver them to, or something like that. But I can't find anything on it now. I did find this rather amusing blog entry about trying to get them to stop.
I use switchboard.com and see no use for any kind of phone book anymore. Johnston County is out of control with them. The town of Clayton does recycle them now.
I agree that there is absolutely NO use for them. I don't need them and, the few times I have tried to look up a number, the place wasn't listed. I think the phone companies should be cited for littering.
I also think the proliferation of phone books is a waste, however a number of folks, including many of the elderly, don't have access to the internet.
You are absolutely correct. My mother does not even know how to use a cell phone nor does she want to. Grace
I keep one at the house, and one in the car, saves on those 411 charges. Other than that, a complete waste. :?
If it's not, it should be. There must be some way they could be required to deliver them only to people who actually want them. I don't even have a landline, and they have thrown at least 3 of them in the vicinity of my mailbox in the last few weeks. Think of the wasted paper and the wasted landfill space. Is there anyplace around here that takes them for recycling? How hard would it be to include a postcard in everybody's bill saying if you want a telephone directory, send this card back? Of course, 2 of the 3 phonebooks are not published by the telephone company anyway, so that wouldn't work for those. Maybe a "do not deliver" list, similar to the "do not call" list?
I have 8 mailboxes at the entrance of my driveway, as I am the last part of the paved road in my subdivision (and apparantly the mailman doesn't have gravel road tires on his subaru station wagon :roll, and there are several houses 'down the dirt road' and their mailboxes are housed in my yard ( oh joy :shock. The new telephone book season, is my least favorite. I usually give them 4-5 days to get them up, otherwise they get put in my trash when I roll the can out to the curb. :-D
