The demise of the phone book
#41
Posted 19 February 2012 - 07:49 AM
As for trying to remember a name.
Step 1 - Turn on Computer
Step 2 - Go to Google maps
Step 3 - Find the area of the map of the business you are looking up
Step 4 - Type in the service they provide (chinese food)
Step 5 - Choose result and call them
#42
Posted 20 February 2012 - 10:35 AM
#43
Posted 20 February 2012 - 11:59 AM
#44
Posted 25 February 2013 - 11:47 PM
How is this not littering? It seems wrong that we should have to pay to have them recycled.
#45
Posted 26 February 2013 - 12:45 AM
Mrs. Sparky however, called them up and tore them a new one. She also wanted more than one as we have three lines. I suggested that she was being a little harsh.
Still in the combative mode, she explained to me about the waste, and the fact that we pay good money, along with a few choice words about having to push all those buttons to get to talk to someone and having to hold for service.
Then I reminded her that she was correct.......we did pay good money.......but we pay it to Shaw.
#46
Posted 26 February 2013 - 02:58 AM
After a couple of weeks of them sitting in the lobby, only one person in our 30-unit building has taken a Telus phone book.
How is this not littering? It seems wrong that we should have to pay to have them recycled.
I think you could call them and tell them to pick up.
#47
Posted 26 February 2013 - 08:02 AM
#48
Posted 26 February 2013 - 08:56 AM
Now that's dedication to your job.
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#49
Posted 26 February 2013 - 01:33 PM
#50
Posted 26 February 2013 - 01:55 PM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#51
Posted 26 February 2013 - 01:59 PM
#52
Posted 26 February 2013 - 03:28 PM
Time for it to go. Who doesn't automatically go to the computer/phone/tablet for a number these days.
Try the 20% of the population that DOES NOT have regular internet access. Take a moment to look up recent ITU stats if you don't believe me. It's easy to lose perspective of what it means to not be affluent.
Or me, even, when I don't feel like messing around for ten minutes filtering out all the crap that floats to the top because of the dedicated work of SEO experts in Texas and Australia and I want to actually find something near me.
#53
Posted 26 February 2013 - 03:49 PM
If there are 20% of people without Internet then why not make delivery of the books by request? There's no need to litter the city every year with something few residents actually utilize, and what's worse is there have been competing phone books delivered over the years.
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#54
Posted 26 February 2013 - 04:20 PM
#55
Posted 26 February 2013 - 04:25 PM
The classic 80/20 split.
If there are 20% of people without Internet then why not make delivery of the books by request? There's no need to litter the city every year with something few residents actually utilize, and what's worse is there have been competing phone books delivered over the years.
It's a private company, who cares what they do. Black Press drops much more paper on doorsteps in a month than YP does once a year, and I'm sure the straight-to-recycling level for Black Press is similar to phone books. You could say Black Press could go to "request-only" but instead they do a form of negative-option, it comes unless you go out of your way to tell them otherwise. It's a business model that works.
#56
Posted 26 February 2013 - 04:30 PM
#57
Posted 26 February 2013 - 07:04 PM
#58
Posted 27 February 2013 - 08:05 AM
I doubt they would ever turn to a phone book.
I like the "by-request" idea. They could even give me a button to press on my January e-statement from TELUS.
Oh, wait. I dropped my land-line and don't get an e-statement from TELUS.
#59
Posted 27 February 2013 - 09:20 AM
The phone book recently delivered to my place went straight into the paper bin used for starting fires in our fireplace
Aha! Last year when I discarded the phone books dropped off at our office somebody demanded I bring one of them back, because somebody said "I still like to use the phonebook."
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#60
Posted 27 February 2013 - 09:24 AM
Aha! Last year when I discarded the phone books dropped off at our office somebody demanded I bring one of them back, because somebody said "I still like to use the phonebook."
Bah, that was 2012, things change lightning-fast Mike.
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