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This is why I just don't listen to voicemail. There is no reason to leave a voicemail, just send a text.

Yeah that's going to screw you over at some point, I presume.

I had the California DMV try to reach out to be about some form inconsistencies and they only contacted me by phone and voicemail. (To their credit they left me 3 voicemails through a very busy day I had.)

There was no other way they were going to contact me before letting my car registration expire.

Same thing just happened to me just this week, I wasn't checking voicemails because I get too many spam calls / spam messages and I almost got withdrawn from Graduate School because of it -- (I needed to verify a term break and since I never did, automatic withdraw initiated.)

Sorted it out, but barely. Very frustrating to have that sort of outcome from the root cause of phone spammers.

My cell provider could disable voicemail, after I asked them nicely. That way people don’t even get the impression they’ve left me a message.

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