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Kwazy

Rather, how do you get the companies to stop delivering them. Today in the middle of my driveway when I arrived home was a stack of FIVE yellow and white pages measuring 10 inches high and weighing in at perhaps 12 pounds. It seems there are at least two or three different competing companies, as this happens multiple times each year.

I haven't looked up a number in a paper phonebook in years. Every time one of these packages arrives, I dutifully throw the bag in the back seat of my car and drive around with it until I pass an elementary school with a Paper Retriever in the parking lot.

Here's my suggestion to the phonebook companies: Take 50% of whatever it costs to print and deliver my phonebooks, and give it to the local school system in my name. Keep the other 50% for yourselves. Everybody wins. You save money, the school makes money, and my monumental property tax bill might be reduced by a few cents.

Or just stop tossing the damn things in my driveway. Either way.

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ekattan·
Internet Database. Option to chose between paper or internet.
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hilskie·
word...I usually take 'em to the paper recycler...they have a canister just for phonebooks...LOL
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NotStyro·
Several phone/advertising companies deliver these books to the condo building where I live. I usually let them age to a couple weeks then I go around to each building and collect the unadopted books and throw them in a recycle bin. It usually take around five car loads to get the job done. I get my exercise, the buildings are cleaner and recycling helps the environment.
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AutumnRocks·
Wow, that's a lot of phone books. I didn't even realize people got books anymore...Well, better knock on wood so that I don't get a next-day shipment of them.
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Fetal·
i've been in withdrawal for like a month here, and now, just when i'm getting over your blog, you come back. asshole. :)
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Kwazy·
Hehe...thanks for the welcome back. I spent two weeks in Italy, and the two weeks before that getting ready to go to Italy.
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AutumnRocks·
How was it?? Where did you go? Did you follow the cobblestone roads to Rome? You should blog about your trip!
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Kwazy·
It was awesome! Tiring, but awesome. Traversed more cobblestones than you could ever imagine. I don't really want to blog about it, but pick a night and grab Yount and IACO and we can discuss it over a drink or ten.
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microscent·
They go straight from my front porch to the recycle bin. It is very annoying getting them multiple times per year. \r All roads lead away from Rome. \r I'm glad you got to see it, tons of history there!
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AutumnRocks·
Ten would be good for me. I don't have to work at all this weekend! Sweet! I think we are going to have a bonfire tomorrow night, but drinking could be done on Saturday. \r I was supposed to go to Rome on my spring break...but sadly those plans have been postponed. :(