Phonebooks at the front doors

Positively Palermo received this e-mail: "Hi Miss Penney, Please spread the word that the phone company has put phone books in front of the doors. There will stay out for months in the front of owners that use Palermo as vacation second homes. Be a good neighbor and take in your neighbors so people don't know it is vacant." Miss Penny Lane says: She tripped over the book when leaving her house and landed right in a lantana.