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<blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2339819" data-attributes="member: 238814"><p>I hate all this junk mail that I have to shred in its entirety because your details are in the middle pages also. I did return it at one time, but then I began to wonder what happened to the envelopes with my details on at the other end.</p><p></p><p>I have a printed thing saying 'No' this that and the other, but no one reads.</p><p></p><p>Also printed thing says no unwanted callers, but no one reads, so then I specified the unwanted callers eg no catalogues, no religious groups etc and it finishes 'No appointment? Then no-one will answer the door.' Because being deaf, when there is an unexpected caller at the door, I cannot tell what they are saying immediately and I don't know the reason they are there. But if I know why a person is there eg gas boiler man for appointment , then I can figure out very quickly what he is saying. In order to lipread well, I need a clue into the conversation before someone speaks, and then I am pretty good at lipreading.</p><p></p><p>But this vulnerability of mine, gives a conman or rogue trader a foot in (so to speak) and they take advantage of making themselves appear official while I am still trying to work out what they are saying.</p><p></p><p>99% of all my doorbell ringing or knocks are opportunists. So I never answer the door now. If I am expecting something or someone, there is a prior arrangement of safe place, or they have instructions to text me from the front door now.</p><p></p><p>I bought a new doorbell earlier year. It is not a deaf persons doorbell, but it has a small blue flash, and I can move it from socket to socket if I am expecting someone so it is next to me, It has two plug in things. One is the longest ring I could find on it (then I am likely to see the flash). The other plug in thing is set to a dog barking, and that is right by the front door, in the socket there. I don't have that one plugged in if I am expecting a caller I want. A couple of days ago, Jehovah's Witnesses, two of them with face shields on, were going from door to door. They had seen me go in from my car.</p><p></p><p>So when they rang, the dog barking doorbell sprang into action (it is a very small literally not even one metre by one metre hallway and I always keep both doors shut and consequently this amplifies the barking doorbell sound dramatically), and they both moved pretty smartly back into the street.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gennepher, post: 2339819, member: 238814"] I hate all this junk mail that I have to shred in its entirety because your details are in the middle pages also. I did return it at one time, but then I began to wonder what happened to the envelopes with my details on at the other end. I have a printed thing saying 'No' this that and the other, but no one reads. Also printed thing says no unwanted callers, but no one reads, so then I specified the unwanted callers eg no catalogues, no religious groups etc and it finishes 'No appointment? Then no-one will answer the door.' Because being deaf, when there is an unexpected caller at the door, I cannot tell what they are saying immediately and I don't know the reason they are there. But if I know why a person is there eg gas boiler man for appointment , then I can figure out very quickly what he is saying. In order to lipread well, I need a clue into the conversation before someone speaks, and then I am pretty good at lipreading. But this vulnerability of mine, gives a conman or rogue trader a foot in (so to speak) and they take advantage of making themselves appear official while I am still trying to work out what they are saying. 99% of all my doorbell ringing or knocks are opportunists. So I never answer the door now. If I am expecting something or someone, there is a prior arrangement of safe place, or they have instructions to text me from the front door now. I bought a new doorbell earlier year. It is not a deaf persons doorbell, but it has a small blue flash, and I can move it from socket to socket if I am expecting someone so it is next to me, It has two plug in things. One is the longest ring I could find on it (then I am likely to see the flash). The other plug in thing is set to a dog barking, and that is right by the front door, in the socket there. I don't have that one plugged in if I am expecting a caller I want. A couple of days ago, Jehovah's Witnesses, two of them with face shields on, were going from door to door. They had seen me go in from my car. So when they rang, the dog barking doorbell sprang into action (it is a very small literally not even one metre by one metre hallway and I always keep both doors shut and consequently this amplifies the barking doorbell sound dramatically), and they both moved pretty smartly back into the street. [/QUOTE]
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