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Yellow Pages: Will the Madness Ever Stop?
This post gets easier to write every year. As I’ve reported many times in the past, a truckload of yellow pages has been dropped off at my apartment building. This year, there seems to be a new technique – actually putting the individual bags at each apartment’s door instead of just dumping them in the foyer. This likely increases uptake of the books since no one wants to be blamed for having debris in the hallway in front of their door.
Turns out the timing was quite good this year as I have a broken slat under my bed. The phonebook fits nicely underneath it and gets rid of an annoying sag that I’d noticed last week. This is probably the most well-used phonebook in the building.
On a more serious note, let’s think about what all these phonebooks amount to. Millions upon millions are printed every year for an ever decreasing number of users. The best statistics I can find suggest that a little less than 50% of Americans used the print yellow pages in the last month. That’s actually a lot higher than I would have thought, but considering the source of that data is the Yellow Pages trade association, it might be a wee bit optimistic. Needless to say, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that printed directories are quickly going downhill . Furthermore, judging by the number of phone books that never left my foyer last year, and the scorn with which my neighbors discussed them, it’s obvious that an increasing number of people view the books as little more than a public nuisance. I also argue they are a scam on advertisers who think they are reaching far more people than they actually do.
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