Jun 20, 2012
Got a call. Some help or a reminder if this has not already been posted.
We purchased a single Panasonic portable phone with Call Blocking about 1 yr ago. It is GREAT. You can easily save the number from these calls and the next time they call they are automatically blocked after one (yes one) ring (I do not know if they get a "number disconnect tone" or not). This has dropped the number of calls to virtually 0 (zero). The only limitation is you can only save 30 numbers. Once we exceed that number we delete the oldest ones.
We have also alerted bonfide people (e.g Big Brothers, Diabetes, etc) that will will no longer accept calls without caller ID identifying their organization. If we do not recognize the phone number we will add them to our Blocked List. Sad it has come to this.
Other have recommended this approach and we can confirm it works!