Letter to the editor: Phone books still needed

Seems that some businesses don’t want to hear from us if we don’t have a cell phone or at least a computer. Try to look up some businesses in the phone book and they don’t exist. Sure, it cost a business money, a few dollars for a listing in the phone book, but to write people off who can’t afford a computer or cell phone, or are too old to learn a computer, is cruel. At least have a listing in the local Yellow Pages of the phone book, where even poor people can find them. Peter Grant, Bristol

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