Many good ideas have also faded, such as the clotheslines that Sightline & I both champion. That’s not to say they’re not fading from use.
I suspect we’d all like to see everyone’s numbers included except our own.Īs you know, I’ve written on the ways that phonebooks can sometimes be faster, more effective, and maybe even more resource-efficient than online searches ( !-/). A comprehensive cellphone directory would be useful, and intrusive. * “More and more people with cell phones & unlisted numbers means that the White Pages are gradually becoming less useful.” Indeed–and so are online directories, which also lack cell and unlisted numbers. How many other markets receive similar combined volumes, and how many in that 14 percent have switched over to them rather than dropping out of paper? * “The share of households relying on stand-alone residential white pages fell from 25 percent to 11 percent, just between 20.” Century Link now delivers the Seattle White and Yellow Pages bound together, in addition to the standalone–evidently a step toward eliminating the standalone. * “The EPA reports that only 37 percent of phone directories (by weight) are recycled.” A national figure? Seattle’s overall recycling is significantly higher, and its phonebook recycling rate may be higher still, since the books are easier to recycle than many other materials. the stats you cite, beyond andyg’s trenchant remarks on the 8 percent who seem to fall between the opt-in cracks. Hat tip to Jeanette Henderson for the video idea.Ĭlark–A couple questions re.
#White pages georgia update#
Update by EdP: For more detail on the history of the law-and how we can change it-see my earlier post on the subject: Why You Can’t Stop the White Pages. So I’m kind of in the same situation as that absolutely, 100% for real guy in the video: I wish someone would just go ahead and change the law already. AT&T has reported that only 3 percent of residents in Austin and Atlanta asked for the white pages after the company initiated by-request-only delivery.A Gallup survey, as reported here, found that the share of households relying on stand-alone residential white pages fell from 25 percent to 11 percent, just between 20.The EPA reports that only 37 percent of phone directories (by weight) are recycled.(Of course, the survey was paid for by an internet white pages provider - but their findings are consistent with other evidence.) A recent Harris Interactive survey found that most Americans don’t even use the white pages, and that 87 percent of respondents said that they’d support an “opt-in” program if they knew it would save money and protect the environment.Looking beyond the anecdotes (and the totally real, not at all made up hidden-camera video above), there are plenty of hard numbers showing that mandatory phone book laws are a massive waste of both paper and money: And as that mix of states suggests, the appeal of ending mandatory white pages delivery crosses partisan lines phone book laws make even the conservative Heartland Institute sound like a bunch of tree-huggers. And sixteen enlightened states already allow phone companies to spare their customers the annual ritual of discarding an unneeded phone book: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and most recently, California. The city of Seattle recently allowed residents to opt out of both white pages and yellow pages delivery. But the good news is that the tide is turning. Investigators conducted an extensive search of the van after they found “a pipe and containers” inside, but the vehicle was eventually cleared.The phone lady has it right: most states still mandate universal white pages delivery. The people detained by police told investigators they “were here to deliver documents to the U.S. Inside the van, police found two handguns and a shotgun, authorities said. The other two people were released without charges. Police initially detained Payne and two other people when Payne admitted to having guns in the white van. as a “suspicious vehicle” that was illegally parked on Capitol grounds. Police said Payne’s van came to their attention shortly before 4 p.m. His arrest came after police surrounded his van - which officials said was illegally parked - and shut down several streets around the Capitol and Supreme Court for hours. Payne, 80, of Tunnel Hill, Georgia, was arrested on charges of possessing an unregistered firearm, possessing unregistered ammunition, and carrying a pistol without a license. Capitol on Wednesday arrested a Georgia man who they say had several guns in his van and claimed to be in Washington to deliver documents to the Supreme Court.
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