Phone Book Reminder
 

As you receive your new phone books, please refrain from placing them at the postal facilities. Please keep our community clean by placing your old (as well as new) phone books out for collection on your regular home collection day.

Excessive trash. Why not send a post card, so people could order the book if they really want it? I already threw mine out.

Cannot remember the last time I opened a phone book for anything.

Headed the way of the buggy whip.

Yes it should have a way to either opt in or out.

The yellow page revenue stream must be such that nobody cares if they are used or not.

I know businesses that had a dedicated, yellow page phone number.....that never rang!

Do you remember getting the annual Sears Christmas catalog? Then they scaled back and had you send a card back in if you wanted one. Now, it looks like Sears will be filing bankruptcy. So sad.

Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah.

Retiredguy ‘s idea has merit.

mine got wet as it was not delivered in a plastic bag, went into the recycling bin.

Still use mine in the outhouse.

Recycled I hope

I can't wait to see how many idiots dump theirs at our Postal Station.

Mine already went into my recycling.


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Was the postal station the place to bring old telephone books at one time? I would never consider bringing an old phone book there. Color me confused about this.

Phone books are to be recycled so I don't understand why anyone would bring them to the postal station.

New one to magazine rack where it gathers dust.

Old one to the recycle bin.

I don't think I used last years phone book once!

They usually stick it on top of the recycling trash can at the postal station. I saw one there yesterday and someone else picked it up to take home. Probably someone who just moved here.

Just a note, those are trash cans at the postal station, not recycling bins. There were some previous articles specifically requesting people to take flyers, etc home and recycle there not at the postal stations.

Speaking of buggy whips, I am amazed that The Daily Sun does not have a full digital version. The advertisers would love it, and I would definitely subscribe even if the price was higher. Paper newspapers are on the way out.

Good to know. There must be a hundred or so phone books piled up at the Lynnhaven Postal Station. And I know they collect the trash every day there. These have been there a while.

What surprises me is the phone books are delivered to our driveways. This means people are TAKING their old books to the postal centers! What is up with this? Do they think they are recycling the phone books by taking them there

These are new phone books at the Lynnhaven Postal Station for the most part.

They may be extra new phone books that were supposed to be delivered to homes. The phone books were dropped off at the postal stations for delivery to the houses.

We got one phone book on our driveway, and one shoved into our mail slot. Both were recycled at home.

Our mailbox station is about a mile from our house, outside our village and across Buena Vista. Not particularly convienent to anywhere we are heading. So we try to pick up mail every two days or so, but sometimes it goes a day or two longer. Our postal person will roll up mail and shove it into the box in a ball. It’s rare we get a magazine with a unscrunched front cover. Needless to say, the phone book made all those voting ads quite a mess.

He or she seems to put the catalogs in first, so first class mail is held until there is sufficient room in the box. Sometimes we get our first class mail a week after the postmark.

Why make your mail persons job so difficult?
You don’t pick up your mail and complain about it’s condition.
What do you suggest the mail person should do?

Just as a lark, I tried looking up the landline phone number using my husband's name. I got such a run around, I gave up. How do you look up someone's phone number on line without having to pay a fee for the information? What am I doing wrong?

Which village has an inconvenient postal station location? That surprises me as I thought all residents had access to a postal station very close to their homes, especially in their village.

I try to be a good citizen. Therefore, I do not take the phone book to my postal station, but rather to someone else's.

What a great idea!

Ha ha
 

That is so funny.

Silly rabbits, the phone book not about you or me! It about advertising at touch of you’re fingers, they think. As long as they are making money on sale of space for advertising we are going to get free phone books.

Well, thank you for trying.

I hate to encourage him, but Rapscallion is so funny!

BTW, I actually used my new phone book yesterday.

And if I try to look up a number online, I can never find a residence number, either.

Why dump at the postal station?
 

The recent issue of one of the many phone books was sent by mail to the PO box. It is easy to just leave it there.

Huh? Mine was delivered to my driveway. In fact, I received one and then another one showed up about a week later.

They now have recycling cans at the postal stations?

Telephone Directories
 

If they didn't deliver 2 and 3 issues to the same address; there wouldn't be so much of a problem.

Old phone books in the "Old Days"
 

We moved to The Villages in 2005, and, yes, old phone books were then collected at the postal stations. Habits die hard, I guess, and apparently some don't bother to heed the pleas of The Villages not to bring them there anymore.

I wish they would NOT deliver phone books!!! If we are not here they sit outside in the driveway announcing you are not home.

Same thing here.

Bridgeport at Lake Sumter. The mail station is across from the Bridgeport rec center. We need to leave our village, head to Arnold Palmer country club, go under Buena Vista, around the rec center and across the street to the postal station. According to the Villages app it is 1.3 miles from my house.

In Virginia Trace, if we had too much mail we would get a key in our mailbox, and all the mail would be in the big mailbox.

Our mail person in Bridgeport is not that savvy. Heck, I’ve seen them fill up my small mailbox with packages that aren’t even for us.

Ohiobuckeye
 

Personally I think people are tired of getting junk mail & if they don't need another phone book,they just leave it at the postal facilities, then they don't have to dispose of it themselves. It's easier than dragging it home then taking it out to the curb!