Telephone Directories.

hako · Guru

Telephone Directories.

Bushpie · Guru

Begs the question........ Do any still use a phone book?

Or do you use the quicker easier online line method.........

I havent used a phone book for about five years

brickies · Guru

Have not used a telephone book for years , When ever we get one it filed in the bin .

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Denis, if you check every book that is published in the past 15>20 years you will see that the vast majority of them are printed overseas.

It is unusual for a publication to be printed in Australia ... not always China but overseas.

And obviously this has been due to the high cost of printing in Australia which has led to there now being very few local printing organisations now with the capacity to produce large volume runs of paper publications - including collation, binding etc.

I will venture to say that almost all the 'glossy magazines' sold here are now printed outside Australia - mainly Malaysia I think.

Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Wednesday 23rd of March 2016 08:57:18 AM

aussie_paul · Guru

brickies wrote:
Have not used a telephone book for years , When ever we get one it filed in the bin .

The recycle bin Brickies I hope. biggrin

Aussie Paul. smile

brickies · Guru

Of cause Paul

aussietraveller · Guru

I have not used a telephone book since the writing started to look like ants crawling across the page, now much easier to go on line that way I can make the print any size I want.

blissonwheels · Senior Member

Gooday,

Worst part about all Phone books over the last several years is you ned to carry a Giant Magnifying glas with you to read them, I find they still have a place in my life from time to time.

Cheers,

Bliss on Wheels.

03_Troopy · Guru

I wonder how they would go if you drilled a hole through the corner, and looped a piece of string through the hole, so you could hang it on a nail in the dunny? Maybe the print would rub off though

hako · Guru

Remember back when some of us were kids - the pink pages and way too thin for dunny paper as many found out. Why did they change from pink to yellow?

Good Luck

Wombat 280 · Guru

In this country we are consumers of everything and not manufacturers of anything. We may assemble a few things to give us that warm fuzzy feeling it's Australian made but all the parts are imported even most caravan bits, right down to the self tappers that hold it all together . Very sorry just can't afford to buy Australian anymore and if it is produced here the profits go out of the country to the parent company anyway certainly not to the Australian tax system

Woody n Sue · Guru

My Dad always reckoned every year that the print got smaller not only do I now find I am in agreance but this year it really was and so was the size of the pages
Like others I haven't looked at one for a couple of years either as I already have the phone numbers I need in my phone if not I simply do a search for it on line
Woody

Bushpie · Guru

03_Troopy wrote:
I wonder how they would go if you drilled a hole through the corner, and looped a piece of string through the hole, so you could hang it on a nail in the dunny? Maybe the print would rub off though

Good idea Troopy...... I am always looking for something to read in there.......if I forget to take my ipad with me......

Desert Dweller · Guru

How many WINGS & WONGS are in the new Chinese printed directory just in case I WING the WONG number?

03_Troopy · Guru

Bushpie wrote:
03_Troopy wrote:
I wonder how they would go if you drilled a hole through the corner, and looped a piece of string through the hole, so you could hang it on a nail in the dunny? Maybe the print would rub off though
Good idea Troopy...... I am always looking for something to read in there.......if I forget to take my ipad with me......

haha, that's why I always liked the "Have Your Say" section of the paper.... wink

brickies · Guru

Lets start a movement

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Oh now brickies - that was very "subtle"