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Around the same time frame, my brother rented some rooms in his house to people who had the occupation of actually delivering those phone books. (This was in a
by trollbridge 6mo ago
Around the same time frame, my brother rented some rooms in his house to people who had the occupation of actually delivering those phone books. (This was in a different country, but apparently the Yellow Pages existed everywhere.)
The delivery-people got overwhelmed and eventually just resorted to putting the stacks and stacks of phone books into piles and burning them. It took a long time until they got caught because nobody really misses a phone book.
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- notwhereyouare 6mo agoI think dad wanted some extra money one year and he took my brother and I out and delivered 100s of phonebooks in our area. i think we got a season pass to 6 flags out of it, but i'm not positive
- detourdog 6mo agoThe mailroom of my apartment building in college in 1988 was full of phone books that were unclaimed. I took enough to make a platform for my futon.
- ToucanLoucan 6mo agoAs funny as these stories are it makes my environmentalist blood boil. Such ridiculous waste at scale for a product barely anyone actually wants.