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What's With The Small Phonebooks?

We used to always get a small-ish phone book from other companies, but I always used the big ol' Dex phone book as it was more complete, had more local info, etc ... . The small ones I'd either throw away or put in the trunk of my car in case I needed it.

Now I get my Qwest/Dex/Whatever phone book today, and now they're bundling a small phone book with it. (I also noticed that they printed an advertisement directly on the bottom side of the book, on to the side of the pages -- I'm sure that ad was cheap.) I wondered if this was some sort of supplemental phone book with more info, but no: It's just another phone book for people to keep around that has less extraneous stuff in it and Bend is just the latest market to get one.

Posted by Jake on 03/02/05 @ 04:35 PM
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Val said on 03/02/05 @ 11:12 PM:
You can always recycle the ones you don't want!

Dan said on 03/03/05 @ 04:33 AM:
We've been getting the phonebooks like that for years here. Nynex/Verizon always sends their Superpages with a small version adhered to the biggie. Great, two phone books I'll never use.

cheryl said on 03/03/05 @ 08:21 AM:
Love the small phone book. I could actually use a couple more to keep in the cars. I do wish they'd incl. the govt pages in them though.

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