Interesting .... I'll give it looksie.

But, it's really a combination of not wanting any uninvited intrusions and the fact that people get very angry if you don't reply. On the other hand, once it is made clear that you don't return calls TO ANYONE, they stop leaving messages. More often it is women who take this badly/personally.

It's not just voice mail that I don't like. I rarely even deal with my email. I NEVER deal with my regular mail. It's been a problem for over a decade. In fact I spent last week shredding boxes of unopened mail from 1998. I've gone thru 16 beer cases of mail the past 2 months. I've got about 10 more to go through.

I never open mail anymore. My dad has my bank and government stuff sent to him. For some reason he actually enjoys dealing with mail, and once month or so we go over any issues. Mostly it's making sure that what I've charged was stuff I really bought.

At this point my mail box has no name on it and is locked permanently open. So even if a mailperson violates the post-9/11 policy of NOT delivering to an unmarked mailbox they have to pick up what they left the next day since the previous mail falls thru the unlocked box to the floor when they open the building's mailbox to fill it.


Honestly: It's not really possible for me to miss anything important. Nothing important happens to people in my situation.