At 9:15am on a Saturday (today), a real person called to ask me if I received "my new phone book" (Yellow Pages). The caller ID showed no useful info. Who leaves something by your front door that you didn't ask for and then calls to see if you got it? Intrusive. They've done this before. I told her "I have no idea" (false, as I picked it up the day before), she said "thank you" and hung up. Their number is now blocked.
At 9:15am on a Saturday (today), a real person called to ask me if I received "my new phone book" (Yellow Pages). The caller ID showed no useful info. Who leaves something by your front door that you didn't ask for and then calls to see if you got it? Intrusive. They've done this before. I told her "I have no idea" (false, as I picked it up the day before), she said "thank you" and hung up. Their number is now blocked.
All of the phone directory distributors use a service like this to ensure their employees are delivering the books. They call a certain number of random households in the delivery area to verify delivery. If there are too many missed deliveries, the delivery person either does not get paid or their salary gets docked and the have to redeliver the books. The book publishers do not particularly care whether a household wants the book or not since they charge for listings based upon the number of book delivered. That is another reason they call to verify delivery. They have to be able to prove the number of deliveries they promise when setting rates.
they just called, id says WIRELESS CALLER. dial tone when i picked up. interestingly, i did just have the phone books put on my front porch yesterday. huh