This week I was able to convince Brad to stop the Toronto Star from coming daily. Now that he has the NY Times application on his iPhone and he can read the news on the go, on the subway or online there was really no need to have the paper come every day. I was finding that our recycling mainly consisted of unread newspapers. We are still going to receive the weekend Toronto Star but we’ll see if that ever gets opened.
On another note, I was really annoyed when I would annually go down to the mail room and see all the yellow pages sitting there in stacks. They would sit there for weeks until I guess the condo would remove them. Who uses Yellowpages anymore? Doesn’t everyone have a computer in their house or access to Google one way or another? Okay, maybe my Nana may use the Yellowpages since she doesn’t have a computer but isn’t it easier for her to just call me or my mom and have one of us look it up online?
It made me sad to think that all that yellow paper was just going to get recycled and never used. I would think that it would be more cost effective for Yellowpages to start a subscription service and only print and send out the Yellowpages to customers that want it. I’m sure the cost behind mailing it would be cheaper then printing surplus books that never get used! And as my friend Gav said, who wants Yellowpages sitting in your home, it is fugly… maybe if it was wrapped in Louis Vuitton leather or something (he didn’t say that, I did).
The Yellowpages did arrive in our lobby a couple of weeks ago and I was happy to see that they have shrunk the size of the books to a thin manual size. But two weeks later, the stacks lay unopened, and just waiting to be recycled.
Lastly, what happened to regular phone books? I guess those have dissappeared. Do houses still get them? I haven’t seen a phone book in years. I guess they rendered themselves useless because people use cell phones so much, and now that there are services like VOIP and multiple phone companies, chances are you wouldn’t find the number you were looking for anyway. I remember playing in the phone book looking up names and always getting a great satisfaction that there was only one Ishiwara in the phone book. Until I got my own line, then there were two!
