From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I have noted that the yellow pages I got today have been not listing   
   even in their white page sections businesses that I know for a fact   
   are still up and running...apparently some businesses have decided   
   they lose nothing worth losing by not being listed at all.   
   Sad.   
      
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