You might not need one but they are still being sent to homes all over Western New York. We asked people in Buffalo when they last used a phone book and what they do when they get one in the mail.

The Phone Book's Days Appear Numbered At the end of every year, a new telephone book, usually weighing a few pounds, lands with a thud on doorsteps across the country.

When a representative found out the school wanted to boost literacy scores, he worked out a way to donate 1,000 phone books. “Some people may take things for granted,” explained Kevin Bonura.

The demise of the phone book began on Oct. 14, 2010, when regulators in New York approved Verizon’s request to stop mass-printing residential phone books. Virginia regulators would make a similar ...

And apparently some do still use yellow pages to find businesses. Young cites a study from 2013 by a company called Ring Central, ... that shows 53 percent of people still use phone books at home.

The books were downsized years ago to save money, and Frontier received permission in 2012 to halt mass delivery of its residential listings phone book (we used to call them the White Pages).

Did a reader just ask how to look up a family member’s phone number who is not in her local phone book? Go online! Don’t use lack of technical competence as an excuse. This is 2018!