From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Around here, the yellow pages and white pages business listings were   
   still being printed but residential white pages have been print on   
   demand for a decade.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)