The FCC plans to release consumer complaints about telemarketing to help bring an end to unwanted calls.
Tired Of Telemarketers? So Is The FCC : Read more
Tired Of Telemarketers? So Is The FCC : Read more
You don't think that telemarketing isn't still a thing? It is still HUGEnice to see the FCC cracking down on something that hasn't affected anyone in 10 years. where were you in the 90s?
I just take all the postage paid envelopes and, after stripping out any personal identifying info, stuff company A's envelope with the junk from Company B, and vice versa, and mail them back. If enough people did this the postage costs to receive someone elses junk mail would certainly make companies reduce, if not eliminate these mass mailings.Now I wish somebody would stop junk snail mail. The resources wasted on paper, ink, manpower and time is ridiculous. Sometime I think it might be one huge conspiracy to cut down all the forest and stash them in landfills around the world.
I just take all the postage paid envelopes and, after stripping out any personal identifying info, stuff company A's envelope with the junk from Company B, and vice versa, and mail them back. If enough people did this the postage costs to receive someone elses junk mail would certainly make companies reduce, if not eliminate these mass mailings.Now I wish somebody would stop junk snail mail. The resources wasted on paper, ink, manpower and time is ridiculous. Sometime I think it might be one huge conspiracy to cut down all the forest and stash them in landfills around the world.
I don't personally get a lot of telemarketing, but if you own a business, you get hit with crap tons of calls. I know my brothers get at least 5 a day, who have small businesses.ex_bubblehead :Simple fix is to close the technical loophole that allows the caller to modify the caller ID and place that facility with the provider only. Then mandate that the ID can be changed only under very specific conditions:
1. The requested number MUST ring to a live person (no recordings allowed) 24/7
2. The requested number MUST be registered to the person/company making the request.
No third parties and NO exceptions.
Then make all third parties that provide these so called conference call setups that mask the origin of the call equally culpable in any civil or criminal action. This includes providers.
That's the quick and dirty version. There would of course be some legit exceptions.
While I do agree with you, that would be very nice if that happened. Is telemarketing really such a huge deal still? Do people call your cell phone? I have actually gotten calls on my cell from telemarketers but it hasn't happened in a long time, years at least.
I have a trash can underneath my mailbox. Junk mail doesn't even make it into the house.I just take all the postage paid envelopes and, after stripping out any personal identifying info, stuff company A's envelope with the junk from Company B, and vice versa, and mail them back. If enough people did this the postage costs to receive someone elses junk mail would certainly make companies reduce, if not eliminate these mass mailings.Now I wish somebody would stop junk snail mail. The resources wasted on paper, ink, manpower and time is ridiculous. Sometime I think it might be one huge conspiracy to cut down all the forest and stash them in landfills around the world.
Holy next-level trolling, Batman!
Most days, I feel like it would be more efficient to install a paper shredder at the bottom of my mailbox and stash a recycling bin beneath that.