Face it. Â The world is changing. Â I moved out of my parents’ house back in 1994, and in all the years since I have received a full batch of anywhere from six to ten phone books, yellow and white pages, every year. Â And in all that time, I can recall perhaps five or six times I ever used them. Â Nowadays I can find anything I might possibly need a phone book for on the Internet. Â Or rather, I’m going to use the Internet and any business that isn’t out there is probably not going to get my dollars. Â Even the Yellow Pages themselves have opened up YellowPages.com, and if you happen to live in a state serviced by AT&T you can even browse an online version of the printed phone books. Â I’m sure more services are out there as well…
So, given my penchant over the last couple of years to stop junk mail, you can imagine how I feel about my annual stack of phone books that appear on my door step. Â True, I simply drive them over to the post office where they have a dumpster for phone book recycling, but the printing of the books is just a giant waste to begin with. Â (Yeah, yeah… I know, “In Case of Emergencies”, but I keep written down all the emergency phone numbers I would need, especially the ones I would need if I had no power or Internet access.) Â That’s why I was very happy when I got an email from Green Dimes about Yellow Pages Goes Green.
I’ve signed up to have them stop sending me phone books, and now I just have to wait and see…