The fallout continues over the botched delivery of phonebooks in The Villages, with residents making it clear they don’t want delivery in their driveways.
Villagers have made the District Office aware of their unhappiness with the recent phonebook delivery. The phonebooks were delivered without any plastic wrap and thanks to heavy rain, many wound up as a waterlogged worthless mess. Other residents were concerned that delivery was made at homes of snowbirds and vacationers, making it known to potential criminals that no one was home.
The Community Development District 9 Board of Supervisors on Thursday afternoon weighed in on the botched phonebook delivery.
CDD 9 Chairman Jack Reimer said the “torrential rain” left most of the phonebooks useless. He questioned the value of the phonebooks in today’s modern technological age.
“I don’t know why any one would pay for advertising (in a phone book,)” Reimer said.
Fellow CDD 9 Supervisor Don Hickman agreed phonebooks have little to no value.
“Most of my neighbors don’t even want the thing,” Hickman said.
He said residents told him they would prefer a central pickup point for those who want the phonebooks.
District Manager Richard Baier agreed that numerous residents have commented that the phonebooks are useless, as many residents no longer have home phones. He said some residents mistakenly believed the District had some connection to the delivery of the phonebooks, which it does not.
The delivery of phonebooks has also caused problems through the years with numerous old phonebooks dumped at the postal stations.
