When was the last time you received a PHONE BOOK? 🤔

[underpants]

Watching an old episode of “The Office” (last season) and Dwight is pitching to the Scranton White Pages - the White Whale.

https://www.wkyt.com/2025/05/15/good-question-why-dont-we-get-phone-books-mail-anymore/

A CDC report from 2023 shows that 76% of adults lived in households that do not have a landline telephone. So, they wouldn’t be included.

[H2O Man]

1. A couple months ago.

Recommended.

I've never used a cell phone. However, when going to regional cities, I don't mind if one of my kids has one to provide directions.

When I worked at the mental health clinic, a few co-workers thought it curious, even odd, that I read phone books during staff meetings.

[bamagal62]

2. 3 years ago.

I was living in Chicago.

[UpInArms]

3. My phone company sends me a new one annually

I have landline, as well as a cell phone

[Xavier Breath]

4. Four or five years ago I guess.

I kept it because most business numbers don't change all that often, I would imagine. Still refer to it on occasion.

[IcyPeas]

5. I wish I had these:

(I havent seen a phone book in decades)

Worth $400:

Manhattan Yellow Pages 1973 by Peter Max, cover illustrator: Good Soft cover (1973) 1st Edition | Washington Square Autographed Books https://share.google/6WCpl6a3OZbGJGcI0

$850:

Manhattan Yellow Pages Area Code 212 New York Telephone Peter Max by New York Telephone ; Peter Max: GOOD. SOFTCOVER MULTICOLOR (1973) | Princeton Antiques Bookshop https://share.google/d1y16yCwOyfipaz1J

$525:

MAX, Peter. Manhattan Yellow Pages: New York City Area Code 212. - Cult Jones https://share.google/0XdIygaPe3RPJtihT

[BOSSHOG]

6. We have a landline and cell phones

And a phone book each year.

[CTyankee]

7. I've kept a few of our yellow pages books from yore. We always could find a local business that way but since we have

the Internet we can throw them out.

[FloridaBlues]

8. About 3 years ago.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. We Get A Local One Every Couple Years

It covers the 3 small towns, a few tiny hamlets & some unincorporated areas. So, maybe 20,000 people.
Both covers, inner & outer are covered in ads for local businesses.
I think the local weekly prints it.

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Not in years....

I dumped the landline years ago. Absolutely do not miss it.

[GenThePerservering]

11. Waste of paper nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. I still get them

Though I rarely use my landline. It's just part of my high speed internet package.

[kimbutgar]

13. In my senior move job I come across old phone books all the time

And sometimes I have to talk a senior out of wanting to keep one! The last one I recently saw was a 2020 edition. The senior let me throw it out but others have protested!

[ITAL]

14. I think about 6 years or so ago

Love The Office. I've watched every episode at least a dozen times.

[GoodRaisin]

15. They toss one in my driveway every year. I never look at it.

I haven’t had a land line in about 15-20 years. If I need to know a phone number I can google it.

[BlueSpot]

16. I want to say late 90's

It might have been early 2000's though. I gave up my landline (also part of an internet bundle) much later than that because the bundle was cheaper with it than without. (I'm sure that made sense in some presentation to management.)

[Hekate]

17. Yesterday in the mailbox. Yellow Pages, anyway.

[Dem2theMax]

18. Got rid of my landline about 6 months ago.

But I don't think a phone book has been delivered here in over 10 years.