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Households in and around Auckland have been getting the Yellow Pages on their doorsteps lately - but not everyone‘s pleased to get another copy of the distinctive book that’s taken up space in almost every home in the country for decades.
Comedian Urzila Carlson, for example:
The Yellow Pages is the butt of lots of gags like that in the internet era, but recently it’s also had pushback from critics complaining it’s unsolicited, unwanted, unnecessary and wasteful.
Two years ago online news service Crux - which covers Queenstown and the southern lakes region - reported many readers objected to the mass-delivery of the Yellow Pages on the grounds of waste.