Pepsi-Cola has taken over South Station. Spatch is not impressed.

John Ford declares:

... I can't take it anymore. Yellow Book deliveries are driving me crazy.

If you looked around Beacon Hill today, you'll see more Yellow Book and Yellow Pages piled up in apartment blg. lobbies or on the doorsteps of buildings, which averages two books per person. How much of a nuisance and waste is this? ...

Earlier:
No love for Yellow Book in Cleveland Circle, either.
Or anywhere else, that we can tell.

Amy had been a loyal Verizon phone and DSL customer - until she made the mistake of trying to upgrade her service.

Martin Lieberman reports:

Yesterday, as I was leaving my apartment, I noticed that Yellowbook had dropped off the 2009 phone books. Do you know how many they left us? Sixteen. Do you know how many people live in my building? Exactly six. Any moron with a pair of eyes could see that there are only six mailboxes here, and the phone books are all stacked up right underneath them. And now it's a day and a half later, and all 16 are still there, untouched. ...

Ed Yellowbook note: I'm grateful Boston lets you recycle phonebooks, because our Yellowbook never even made it in the house - it went straight from porch to blue bin.

Apparently, workers at the Boston Saks don't realize they can't afford to blow off customers anymore.

My folks live in Roslindale, and they did not get any mail delivery on 12/11 & 12/12/08 - never happened before. Anybody have any inside info about anything weird going on at the Roslindale branch Post Office? E.G., people out sick? AND, last month I mailed a letter to Roslindale, and it STILL has not arrived...

Thousands upon thousands of tons of unwanted phonebooks. Jason provides some time-lapse photography of a forlorn stack of the things over several days at his Quincy office building.

At first, it looks like boston.com is on top of things this morning. They've got a nice new headline: "State of emergency issued due to damaging ice storm," and a photo and cutline to match. But click on the shiny headline, and what do you get? A short metro update from 6:55pm last night.

If you have an analog TV and analog Comcast cable service without a converter box, and you turn on WGBH-TV-2 right now, you're going to see something very wrong: video of normal WGBH programming, accompanied by audio of WGBH's continuously-looping Ready for Digital TV special.

The picture says "This TV is DTV Ready" while the sound says, from time to time, "This TV set is not ready for the switch to digital TV in February 2009". Also, the picture is shrunk down and enclosed in a black box.

WGBH says this is a "Comcast engineering problem", not a problem with WGBH's broadcast or with your TV set.

Valerie reports Meadow Glen Mall won't let parents take any photos at all of their kids with Santa; try it and an elf will jump in front of you and tell you you have to spend at least $21 for a single photo.