Telemarketing Trick

[Prudence]

My problem isn't the calls from live people, it's the automated, computer dialed calls and the evil, nasty, no-good, very rotten junk faxes. At various points in my life I've had sick relatives. Very sick relatives. Near death relatives. And yes, if they die at 3am I need to know at 3am so I can get a plane ticket ASAP because I'm near Seattle, the funeral is in Adel, IA, it's Christmas time, and the first big blizzard of the year is expected to hit and disrupt air travel in about 8 hours. I don't appreciate the continual flood of fax calls waking me up all night long as I wait for "the call."

Not to mention the emotional toll of every ring wondering if it's the one.

I know there are ways to combat junk faxes, but they're fairly labor intensive and I don't have enough free time at the moment. I don't understand why live people can't call after certain hours, but it's okay for machines to call and disrupt people whenever the operators choose.