Does anyone still receive white or yellow pages?

I've lived in a suburban area since around 2008. I think we still got the yellow pages at that house for maybe 3 or 4 years before they stopped. They also got smaller and thinner year after year. I haven't seen one with white pages since the late '90s.

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Ahpla@reddit

I still get one in my mailbox every year. Everyone in my town does. Rural area of Oklahoma.

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Pinkgabezo@reddit

Yes, NE. OK. it is very thin. I won't be throwing it away because I still use the yellow pages for service and repairs. I tried doing searches on the mobile and it didn't give me all the plumbers,etc. In the area.

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Linnaea7@reddit

I always have a hard time finding reliable local businesses, so maybe this would be the way.

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Ahpla@reddit

Yep, NE OK here too. Many of our local businesses don’t have an online presence so it’s hard to find numbers, hours, etc.

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bloopidupe@reddit

That's so cool!

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IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit (OP)

That’s so interesting!!

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desertsunsetskies@reddit

That is cool and nostalgic!

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Opportunity_Massive@reddit

I used to get them when I had my landline, this was back in maybe 2009. I don’t have a landline anymore, so maybe that’s why I don’t see them?

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tetrasodium@reddit

Not sure if landlines get them by default but I think that you can order them. I've seen them and they are hilariously tiny compared to the old days... Pretty sure I've given school kids money for bigger fundraising coupon books.

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IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit (OP)

LOL re: fundraising coupon books.

I have used older ones when writing fiction and needed name ideas for characters.

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Only_Succotash6316@reddit

Don’t think I have ever even seen one in real life, only in old movies

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waggletons@reddit

The last book I received was in 2017.

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Excellent_Squirrel86@reddit

Northern Illinois suburb, and we regularly get the yellow pages. A very skinny but very local yellow pages

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

A couple of years ago (WNY). it was pretty small, but still entertaining to watch the husky who lives across the street tearing theirs to shreds and tossing it up in the air. (He was mad to be out on the porch while his mom cleaned up the mud from him digging up her marigolds.)

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mmbg78@reddit

Sounds like an interesting neighborhood pup

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

Lol, very smart, very big, and very good at entertaining himself if you don't make time to entertain him. :)

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Red_Beard_Rising@reddit

Chicago burbs and it's been about ten years since I've received one.

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devilscabinet@reddit

It has been about 15 years since they delivered one to my house.

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taniamorse85@reddit

I can't remember the last time we got a phone book. It's probably been at least a decade. I live 70-ish miles east of Los Angeles.

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PsychologicalBat1425@reddit

You have to have a land line to get them. I haven't had a land line through the phone compan in 20-years.

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DoublePostedBroski@reddit

No you don’t.

I don’t have one and I get a little yellow pages every year in the mail.

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PsychologicalBat1425@reddit

I can see that. Yellow pages is just advertising. Businesses pay to be on the yellow pages, so the phone company probably has an obligation to distribute. White pages on the other hand, I haven't seen those since I got rid of my landline

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Carrotcake1988@reddit

I think my aunty is the last person that I know of to receive a physical phone book.

She still has it. It’s from 2020. Maybe the pandemic was what finally made people see the end of its usefulness.

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Fire_Mission@reddit

I still get one once a year. They're considerably smaller than they used to be.

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

I haven’t seen one in years. We got one delivered until maybe the early 2010s at my parents’ house. I haven’t received one since I went to college in 2001.

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-Boston-Terrier-@reddit

I haven't seen a physical phone book in at least a decade.

Honestly, they were pretty great. Most people were listed so it made doing things pretty easy. I remember using one to ask a girl with the last name "Smith" to our 8th grade dance. There was like a dozen Smiths in my town and I just started dialing. Somewhere around the 4th or 5th phone call the woman said "Oh, you're looking for my niece. She's at ".

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Tron_35@reddit

The last time I saw yellow pages, must have been around 15 years ago.

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dwisem@reddit

I used to get one every year. Not because I wanted it, but because the mail man just dropped it off at the foot of my mailbox. I recycled it without even bringing it inside. Last time I saw one was maybe 2019. I moved in 2020 and haven’t gotten one at the new house.

One year, the guy next to me left one his under his mailbox for so long, Mother Earth eventually reclaimed it. The mail man dropped a new one and the same spot the next year.

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holymacaroley@reddit

No. I think it has been since before having my kid and she's 13, so I'll guess maybe 15 years +.

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Bob_12_Pack@reddit

I still get them, they go straight to the recycling bin.

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IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit (OP)

The last time I received years ago my bins were on the curb, and it went straight in. It didn’t even make it into the house.

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Bob_12_Pack@reddit

I do that with junk mail too. My elderly mother-in-law lives with us and recently complained that she wasn't getting junk mail. Apparently reading junk mail was something she looked forward to. So now I filter-out the scammy junk mail and give her the rest for her reading pleasure.

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ilovjedi@reddit

Maine. I think we last got ours just before the pandemic.

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desertsunsetskies@reddit

Last time I got one at home was around 2008-2009, when I lived in Orange County. I kinda miss those things.

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purplishfluffyclouds@reddit

FL or CA?

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desertsunsetskies@reddit

CA

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Ecks54@reddit

I can't remember when I last got white/yellow pages delivered to my home, but I think I vaguely remember my parents getting it as late as 2014. I recall it because my then 11-year old asked what it was, and I had to explain that it was the Google before Google.

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la-anah@reddit

I live in Massachusetts and I don't think I have received on since moving to my current house in '13. Not sure when the last one a got at my old place was.

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Sufficient_Cod1948@reddit

I haven't seen one in over a decade. I've been living in my current residence for 8 years and I've never got one here.

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Jewish-Mom-123@reddit

Last one in my bookcase is dated 2020. And I think id know if my husband were throwing them in the recycle bin. So no.

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MorningAngel420@reddit

I didn’t even think they existed anymore at least not in paperback form

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Apprehensive-Pop-201@reddit

Yeah, our phone company still sends them. We have a landline. It's now a tiny little thing.

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soapdonkey@reddit

Luckily no, stopped getting phone books about ten years ago in central Arkansas.

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tinkeringidiot@reddit

I still get one every year. Haven't had a land-line in more than a decade and that was in another state. They just show up here once a year. Tiny little things compared to what they used to be.

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purplishfluffyclouds@reddit

I remember the last time one was dropped at my house 15-20-ish years ago I tried calling to get them to come pick it up cuz it was trash and wasteful, lol

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Cheap_Coffee@reddit

I've no idea. I haven't had a landline in 20 years.

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mmaalex@reddit

Yes, but not the traditional ones any more.

Our small local paper publishes em, theyre maybe 100 pages and its more or less a way to sell ad space.

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tiredmillienal@reddit

I got one earlier this year- small rural town.

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Aryya261@reddit

Just business pages once a year.

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bjgrem01@reddit

I got a yellow pages around 3 weeks ago. It's about a third of the size it was when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s.

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Remarkable_Inchworm@reddit

Received the yellow book recently in Connecticut

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molten_dragon@reddit

I haven't gotten one for at least ten years. I don't remember exactly when they stopped but I do remember getting them a couple times at my old house. That would have been around 2013 maybe?

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TheBimpo@reddit

Rural northern Michigan here. I last received one a couple years ago.

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Witty_Razzmatazz_566@reddit

I live in rural Texas. We still get one. LOL

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Standard-Outcome9881@reddit

Not for several years now, I think. I'm in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. Seems like when they were still coming to the house they would get thinner and thinner.

I had a job in high school delivering phonebooks back in the 1990s. It was delivering to businesses and I had to get a signature for each book delivered. After a few hours, I started signing the sheet myself and just leaving the book at the door when no one answered.

That job lasted a day.

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Elegant_Bluebird_460@reddit

I last got one in 2013, after not getting one for several years before that. I haven't seen one since.

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cdb03b@reddit

Yes. Everyone in the county gets one delivered to their home once or twice a year automatically.

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BankManager69420@reddit

Yes. I still get one and use it every so often. They can oftentimes have decent coupons. Also, if I want to see all my options instead of just trusting the front page of google, it’s helpful.

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morganalefaye125@reddit

We got one a couple of years ago after not getting one for YEARS. It felt so weird. Haven't gotten one since though. Yet

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Scrappy_The_Crow@reddit

I'm in Metro Atlanta and I haven't received either of the "traditional" chunky ones in probably 20 years (the last are still in the laundry room, but I'm being lazy and ain't gonna go look at the dates).

I did get a ~1" thick one that was not made by the phone company about a decade ago.

I haven't had a landline in ~5 years, FWIW.

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max_m0use@reddit

I remember getting one when I first moved to California in 2006. Don't think I got one after that.

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furie1335@reddit

I had to explain yellow pages Tommy daughter the other day

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AccountantRadiant351@reddit

We still get yellow pages yearly in Los Angeles

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Forward-Wear7913@reddit

It was sometime in the mid to late 2000s that I stopped receiving them. Prior to that, they would put them in front of my door every year.

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AdelleDeWitt@reddit

No I don't think we've gotten one in years.

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Phonic-Frog@reddit

I've lived in my current place for a little over a year now; haven't received any white/yellow pages yet.

I lived at my previous address for 14 years before this. When I moved in I got them every year, then starting around 2019 they stopped showing up. Got one in 2022 that was barely 90 pages long. Never got another one.

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ShipComprehensive543@reddit

I shockingly got a white/yellow pages a few years ago. Immediately put it in the recycling.

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FunDivertissement@reddit

The last one I got is from 2021-2022 according to the cover and I still have it. I used to take the old one and put under the seat in my car (before smart phones) for number assistance when using my cell phone away from home. I would put the oldest one in recycling.

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