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Yellow Book go green!

May 08

7:29 AM

When is someone going to tell Yellow Book that America is going green? I came home recently to find bright yellow phone books sitting outside all the doors in my condo building. Mine went immediately into the recycle bin. The next day there were at least three phone books in the Dumpster.

In a 1,000-square-foot condo, it's hard to find space for a 5-pound, unattractive book that will only get dusty and take up space until next year's edition arrives. In a world with technology so accessible, the need for phone books is diminishing. I cannot tell you the last time I used a hard copy of a phone book. However, I have been to an online phone book and dialed 1-800-FREE-411 in the last month.

Rather than waste more than 1,600 pages for a phone book, why doesn't Yellow Book give residents a choice of whether to receive one? Send a slip of paper in the mail every year check yes or no for a phone book.

Kristi Kennedy

Virginia Beach

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Umm

Submitted by davetul on Thu, 05/29/2008 at 10:19 am.

I actually like getting phone book updates every year. I also go to other areas to get their books. I usually have three in my house, one for Northern NC, one for Chesapeake/VB/Norfolk, and one for Hampton/Newpoer News. Sure I don't use them to look up people, as generally I have all the personal phone numbers I need, but for businesses, it's much easier to use the book than the internet.

If you don't like it, throw it out, burn it, put it in your composter, use it for flower bed lining, it keeps weeds out rather well, and you don't have to use your newspaper (which undoubtably ends up in the same place).

But don't insist on a curtailment in delivery of these precious books just because YOU don't use them. I don't use plenty of things, but I don't call for the wholesale banning of them, as I know others might actually like / use them. Show some respect for the rest of the community, instead of thinking that because you believe it is so, then it must be.

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Mine was tossed in the

Submitted by silcnlayc on Wed, 05/28/2008 at 11:25 am.

Mine was tossed in the gutter in the front of my house under my mailbox in a plastic yellow bag...

Thank you for placing it so close to my trash can...I tossed it into the trash bin in one sweep...

There goes another tree for something no one wants! All you have to do is call 411 or go online and you get the number quicker and cleaner (all that black ink on your fingers used to make me mad when flipping through the book). This book is obsolete...even the older generation (which I am) do not want these books anymore. First off, you can't see the numbers, second it is a nuisance and a space hogger....

Stop sending me these unwanted books!!!

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NOW Ask

Submitted by johnbo on Wed, 05/28/2008 at 7:23 am.

Why the rest of us don't care about this, maybe it is because all this go green hype is just buying into the lies being spread by AL Gore and by the way thank him for being a big part of the mess and high prices you are paying now. Global warming never has been or never will be we be the main reason the tempature rise and fall in the enviroment. CO2 is a natural gas emitted when we breathe and the trees and plants use this gas to feed them selves and release O2 back into the atmosphere. People wake up and stop buying the lies.

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Answers to your questions

Submitted by jack_mclovin on Tue, 05/27/2008 at 7:51 pm.

YellowBook - and every other directory publisher - wants to deliver books to as many households as they can. This makes ad space more valuable. And this far outweighs whatever savings they may realize by printing & delivering fewer copies. Thus, allowing people to opt out of delivery is the last thing they want to do to keep profits up. And if you don't want it, just get rid of it. No big deal. Certainly seems like a silly thing to get so worked up over.

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