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|    Louis Epstein to All    |
|    NOT Dead:Phone Books    |
|    06 Mar 24 00:17:22    |
      From: le@main.lekno.ws              Unlike the yahoos who somehow got into their heads that doing web       searches was an adequate substitute for having an actual telephone       directory to leaf through,I have been nothing but annoyed by the       phone company no longer regularly delivering an annual local (and       my choice of whatever nearby books I wanted,sometimes for a charge)       phone book.              Six years after the most recent addition to my collection,I had enough       and called the successor entity to the directory publisher...and today       the "Real Yellow Pages" for Northern Westchester/Putnam/Greenwich and       Dutchess were delivered by FedEx,two weeks before the order-taker said       I would get them by USPS.       The residential books are now print-on-demand and I was told it could       take 6 weeks from the order date...we'll see.              They're thinner than in former days,but still there...I note the       publishers hedge their bets by promoting yellowpages.com and the       "YP app",but it's good to have one newer than the 2017.              -=-=-       The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,       at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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