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In this day and age of the internet, free Google 411 and a host of other paperless directory services, what use do the big, fat phone directories serve? I don’t know about you, but
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Think you can afford more house in the exurbs? Think again.
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Opt-out of the wasteful $26 billion phone directory industry
In this day and age of the internet, free Google 411 and a host of other paperless directory services, what use do the big, fat phone directories serve? I don’t know about you, but