From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   They don't list for businesses on VoIP services that no longer subscribe   
   to services of the incumbent telephone company. That's why the white   
   pages listings have gotten so thin.   
      
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