I must confess. I thought your title referred to something about how big companies have outsourced their tech support to India. Honestly. I despise trying to solve a computer problem with someone I can barely understand. I usually keep asking to speak to their superior until I get someone who speaks intelligible English. Congrats on your No Call list. I wish Mexico would do something like that.

Love that.

I registered for the do not call list online. It gives you more options. I've already been asking to be put on the do not call list of everyone that calls (including my own bank with those annoying "offers".) I like the idea of the red dot, but I don't want to miss the fliers from Superstore since I shop there every week. Being out of the city, I don't get much junk mail anyway.

Our postal service claims a large part of their revenue comes from junk mail and although we can write to various places and ask to be taken off mailing lists, it doesn't always work. So it would be against their interest to come up with something that made as much sense as the Red Dot program. Besides, our political parties have been sending everyone two to three or more pieces of junk mail EVERY DAY for the past several weeks. It all ends up in the trash can at the post office. I read an article that it costs them about $.75 per piece of mail to print and send those out. I know people on this blog have said how the political parties spend their money is their own business (in the context of it's okay to pay Sarah Palin's makeup person $11,000 a week for the first two weeks of October), but why can't they use some of that to help people pay their heating bills or gas up the car to get to work? If someone did that for you, wouldn't you at least consider voting for them?

Our Do Not Call would be great except our greedy, self-serving politicians exempted non-profits and political campaigns from it, so this time of year we get all these robo-calls promoting various candidates and amendments on the ballot. The other exception is companies that claim to have a previous relationship - such as companies remotely affiliated with our credit cards calling to sell us magazine subscriptions. But other than that, it's great.

Sorry for the rant.

That red dot thing would be nice to have here.

we have it here.Been around for sometime.
your finally getting caught up.