I'm not a big fan of caller ID or call blocking.
I stay busy all day and I only return calls while I'm on the road between appointments. Most of my time driving is used also to listen to voice mail on my hands-free headset. My voice mail gives me an option at the end of each call to press 8 to return the call. Since the call is made through the voice mail service my ID is blocked. If I can return the call by pressing 8, I can return a call easily. But, if I have 5 or 6 calls to return I would need to pull over and write each message down.
The problem with call blocking is that when I try to promptly return a call by pressing 8 to a caller with blocking on, all I get is…"we're sorry this party does not accept unidentified calls…" As a result, I skip that person's message and go on to the next message that I can return by pressing 8. Often it is the next morning before I am able to get to those who left messages but had call blocking. Caller ID comes mandatory with my cell phone service, but I don't use it on my home phone because I love surprises.
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