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Phone Safe Again? [SocioPolitico]

While the UK has its fair share of junk mail and cold-calling telemarketers, it's nothing compared with the deluge one gets in the USA. Over there, many people avoid answering the phone until they have heard it screened by the answering machine, and I found that within a week or so my postal box in Los Gatos was receiving junk postal mail.

I have found that the Mailing Preference Service (and its adjuncts for phone and fax advertising) have been somewhat effective in stemming the tide (fax was best; it has completely stopped junk faxes), and now it seems America will be getting the same service enshrined in law [via Raging Platypus]. At last it may become safe to answer the phone over there...

posted at 4:10 AM (UK) | |