Phone books, what the fach loike?

jane82

Should we not have to ask for these in this day and age? 2 big dead trees dropped into me every year. I dont even unwrap them. Do people still use them.
Ye cant even wipe your bum with their glossy pages.

Sulla Felix

Put them in a big envelope. Post them back with no stamp. The phone book people will get a little message saying there is a package they need to pick up.
If everyone started doing this, you'd see the practise soon stop. Even if they started refusing to pay Post for the packages, Post would soon start getting pissy about it and take action.

darkpagandeath

People still get them ? have not seen one in over 10 years.

Ruu

You can opt out.

http://www.phonebookoptout.ie/

PFL

Some people use them some don't - http://www.phonebookoptout.ie if you don't.

Mince Pie

Ruubot2 wrote: »

You can opt out.

http://www.phonebookoptout.ie/

Still, should be an opt in. Nobody uses 'em anymore.

131spanner

We still use ours now and again. Of course online is quicker and the Argos catalogue is still the best needless big book of all time

muppetkiller

PFL wrote: »

Some people use them some don't - http://www.phonebookoptout.ie if you don't.

That makes zero sense...surely it should be an opt-in service these days ?
Such a waste of paper.

Spunge

muppetkiller wrote: »

That makes zero sense...surely it should be an opt-in service these days ?
Such a waste of paper.

I think the people who need the phonebooks arent the type of people to opt-in to something on an online website. Phonebooks are amazing things now i think about it, how did we manage before phone books.

kneemos

The Golden Pages can be handy occasionally.

dilallio

We found the Phone Book very useful indeed for choosing a name for our 18th child.

Yawns

Spunge wrote: »

I think the people who need the phonebooks arent the type of people to opt-in to something on an online website. Phonebooks are amazing things now i think about it, how did we manage before phone books.

Do a deal with An Post then and arrange that a small enough stock of phone books are available for free from the local post office. That way you don't need to go making one for every household in the country when maybe 10% will only use them.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Good resource for people who prefer prank calling residential numbers as opposed to businesses.

Spunge

Yawns wrote: »

Do a deal with An Post then and arrange that a small enough stock of phone books are available for free from the local post office. That way you don't need to go making one for every household in the country when maybe 10% will only use them.

from a utilitarian perspective surely the cost to all ones' lives who rely on the phonebook as a whole outweighs the monetary costs and the ever so mild inconvenience to the other 90%.

magma69

131spanner wrote: »

We still use ours now and again. Of course online is quicker and the Argos catalogue is still the best needless big book of all time

Great roach material.

PFL

muppetkiller wrote: »

That makes zero sense...surely it should be an opt-in service these days ?
Such a waste of paper.

Your experience is not necessiarly everyone's reality. You're asking people to opt in whom traditionally the books has been delivered to them and wouldn't know how to opt in. Put this alongside folks who can't get decent internet and there's still a use for the book.

You don't want it - fine opt out!

Cian92

The phone book is fierce handy. Since Christmas the power went 3 different times. Without it we would have had to ring directory inquiries to look up any numbers.

A nice few coupons in it too.

c_man

Straight in the recycling every year. What a waste.

Yawns

Spunge wrote: »

from a utilitarian perspective surely the cost to all ones' lives who rely on the phonebook as a whole outweighs the monetary costs and the ever so mild inconvenience to the other 90%.

From an environmental cost of printing thousands of books that for the most part go straight into a bin / fire / recycling is a massive waste to convenience the 10%

If a deal was done with the post office and some advertisement was done then anyone who relies upon the phone book would be able to get one themselves or if needed, someone could pick one up for them. It's a massive waste for the sake of tradition that is totally unnecessary in this day and age.

Could have a fraction of them printed and placed in post offices available for collection for free. The people who need one, gets one. The people who don't need one, don't take one. It would be a very simple yet very effective, opt in, option for everyone in the country without the need for going online for the older generation etc.

danniemcq

They're alright books but the list of characters at the start is a bit much

harry Bailey esq

jane82 wrote: »

Ye cant even wipe your bum with their glossy pages.

and you know this how?

Bio Mech

131spanner wrote: »

We still Argos catalogue is still the best needless big book of all time

Its second best, after the bible.