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[VicHockeyFan]

That's been the practise for years, even when I was a kid back east. The newspaper didn't want the disposal problem, no recycling back then. Like a consignment store, the merchant pays only for what he sells.
Often the store owner would give you a paper free minus the top strip.

 

Ya, it's still the practice.  Except at places like 7/11, where the driver will take back and record your "returns" when he drops the new set.

 

The circulation department also uses your returns to calculate your sales on particular days and manually raise or lower your allotment for the next month for each day of the week.

[G-Man]

Mine came today... About two hours after the recycling went out... So I guess I will have one for the next two weeks. 

[Sparky]

Ours was left unceremoniously on the driveway. (throwing distance from the road)

 

Not surprisingly thinner than last year.

 

[AllseeingEye]

Ours arrived last week...

 

 

Me: "Honey do we (of course really meaning her) want this?"

 

Mrs ASE: "Hell no....goes to recycle!"

 

Teenage ASE daughter, as if seeing an alien for the first time: "What is that thing?!"

[HB]

Ours was left unceremoniously on the driveway. (throwing distance from the road)

 

Not surprisingly thinner than last year.

 

Phone book.JPG

So next year when it is thinner yet  they will be able to throw it even further up your driveway.

Excellent less walking.

[Mike K.]

I used them to help start campfires:)

[nagel]

I used them to help start campfires:)

Ooh that's a good call.

 

When I did my reno 2 years ago i kept the entire roof they ripped off the house (to build a second story).  I'm still burning the free wood.

[James Bay walker]

Ours was left unceremoniously on the driveway. (throwing distance from the road)

 

Not surprisingly thinner than last year.

 

Phone book.JPG

ooh, so that's what they look like (I've not received mine yet, so today I phoned Telus's directories fulfillment department 1800-268-5637, and they assured me they'll be mailing mine).  A pleasant surprise was that I actually got through within two or three minutes to put in my request.

 

jbw

 

ps.  Not much of a 'smart' (cell) phone fan (in part due to hearing about Apple's $200 million/day net earnings this past quarter -- I've always seen Apple stuff as faddish and horrendously overpriced but hadn't imagined it was anything like that.  Sure, there are somewhat less pricey brands of smartphones but I do think we're already too wired as it is (with PCs, TVs, and such), and I shudder at the glued in battery concept upping our consumerism level.

 

pps.  something's off about the image in my quoted portion, perhaps a moderator could fix it for me

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[James Bay walker]

 so today I phoned Telus's directories fulfillment department 1800-268-5637, and they assured me they'll be mailing mine).  A pleasant surprise was that I actually got through within two or three minutes to put in my request.

I spoke too soon. 

 

My phonebooks never did show up, I did several follow-up phone calls and filed complaints with two different departments, was misled initially into ordering and re-ordering and ended up being told there (and seeing on their website) that there were now no more available but I persisted and finally, (two weeks ago), my phone books showed up. 

 

I was due for 2 or 3, depending on how you look at how many I was entitled to at the time of my request (as I'd dropped 1 of 3 Telus phone lines), but received 1 (mailed and in my mailbox), plus a week later 4 (mailed, but in one clear bag and too big for my mailbox so they were propped against my apt. door).  I'm suspecting if leaving at my door was how my earlier ones were delivered, they had been all too readily removed by one of my neighbours or users of my building's hallway (perhaps by someone without a Telus phone line).

 

jbw

[Matt R.]

Over here on Salt Spring we don't have a Telus phone book but we do have the Lions Club directory that comes out every year.  For the last two years I haven't bothered to get a listing as I don't see any value in it.

 

Last week, however, we had someone PHONE IN with their concern that they couldn't find us in the listings.  This ranks up there with the guy who requested only "long fries".

 

Matt.

[James Bay walker]

The 2016 Telus phone book has 12 whitepages of listings for Saltspring Islanders (a page less than the 2014 phone book (out of 292 whitepages for 2016), plus a sprinkling of yellowpage listings for Saltspring Island businesses (eg. the Salt Spring Island Wok Bar).

 

If you've a Telus phone line (a big if for some I'll grant you), you're entitled to a free Telus phone book for your area but you may have to ask for it to be mailed, around January/February each year (it's the Victoria and Area white/yellow page book).

 

jbw

 

ps. 411.ca's not all that reliable (it's incorrect for my own listing).

Edited by James Bay walker, 18 July 2016 - 06:17 PM.

[VicHockeyFan]

The 2016 Telus phone book has 12 whitepages of listings for Saltspring Islanders (a page less than the 2014 phone book (out of 292 whitepages for 2016), plus a sprinkling of yellowpage listings for Saltspring Island businesses (eg. the Salt Spring Island Wok Bar).

 

If you've a Telus phone line (a big if for some I'll grant you), you're entitled to a free Telus phone book for your area but you may have to ask for it to be mailed, around January/February each year (it's the Victoria and Area white/yellow page book).

 

jbw

 

ps. 411.ca's not all that reliable (it's incorrect for my own listing).

 

What's with your phone book obsession?  I've not consulted one in over 15 years.