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> My suggestion here is to pick up calls from your local area code, and/or program into your phone the businesses you do business with.

When a business, local or otherwise, asks me for a phone number I regard it as a spam-vector and decline. It's the businesses that need to adapt, not the customer.

A phone number is a very personal piece of information given the intrusion it permits into one's life, and many people are hesitant to share it with one-off requestors for that reason.

Why aren't you tweeting 'job #3327 complete'?



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