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Backseat Driver

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8. If the postman actually delivers them. Mine puts the

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 12, 2019, 09:11 PM

Nov 2019

important stuff in someone else's box a lot. Never misses w/the junk mail though. Even w/ the Informed Delivery app, stuff marked time sensitive or with return addresses from TPTB were "found" virtually undamaged 3 weeks after scanning...must have fallen through the cracks, yeah - right, more than just a few times - delivery gets better for a while, then back to postal trick or treat again!

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A very simple idea about "scam calls". Why do we get so many of them? [View all] Stuart G Nov 2019 OP

I am amused by scam calls Gothmog Nov 2019 #1

Yes, I have gotten that one too. Sometimes the scam call is supposed to be from.."The social Stuart G Nov 2019 #2

If the postman actually delivers them. Mine puts the Backseat Driver Nov 2019 #8

Any solicitations done by phone should have to credit you a quarter on your phone bill lostnfound Nov 2019 #3

That would stop a lot of them. Probably take the "profit" away.. Stuart G Nov 2019 #4

I get so many that I have several ways of dealing with them for my own amusement TlalocW Nov 2019 #5

Thank you for sharing that information..Nice to know that your way of dealing with them really Stuart G Nov 2019 #6

When you have spare time to kill.... keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #7

My technique to deal with them is this customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #9

I just got a call from "social security" ..just now, someone was using my number in Texas. Stuart G Nov 2019 #10

Here is a link to a May 3, 2019 article, (NY Times) on the "Social Security Scam" Stuart G Nov 2019 #11

There is another reason why we get so many .."scam calls" - Calling people has become.." VERY CHEAP" Stuart G Nov 2019 #12