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Are the days of door-to-door insurance salesmen over?

My dad used to collect overdue insurance premiums door to door as a part-time job back in the 1970’s, this is something you never seem to see any more. Nor do you get insurance salesmen knocking on your door although they do have a habit of phoning you at the most inopportune times – and [...]

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It’s time to do something about that old boiler…

I would like to bet that it has been quite a while since you took a look at your domestic boiler. I suppose it lives out in the garage – like most of them do – and I would not be a bit surprised if it looked something along the lines of that particular boiler [...]

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Get your own back on those bloody annoying phonecalls from foreign call centres.

I don’t care if these curses of the modern age provide employment for down-and-outs in third world countries, I don’t want them calling me, at any time, EVER!!! and it appears I am not the only person who is totally fed up with these annoying interruptions to the day. Up to ten times a day [...]

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