Wouldn’t it be nice to have a phone number to give to companies that require your number for service whom you really would rather not talk with. One way to be able to do this is to choose an online voice mailbox.
There are several services offering online voice mailboxes. With this service, you simply sign up and are assigned a number. That number may be local or it can even be a toll free number. You give that number out, and when anyone calls, it goes directly to an online voice mailbox. The person is able to leave you a message and you are not bothered by a ringing phone.
The online mailbox system will then send you an e-mail that you have a voice mail message. You log into your voice mailbox and retrieve your messages.
If you no longer have a landline, this can save you several minutes of cell phone use every day. Telemarketers can talk to the voice mail and not use up the minutes in your cell plan.
You might want to consider signing up for a voicemail box just to have a number for entering when registering on websites. Some sites require a number, but none of us want to have our dinner interrupted by a ringing phone from a telemarketer. Additionally, this will protect your privacy from those dreaded sites that sell your information to other businesses.
Even though you still have a land line, you can forward your calls to the voice mailbox. All of your calls will no longer ring at home, but go directly to voicemail. Sort through those that are important and discard the rest. You will get an e-mail of each message. Try using the voice mailbox when on vacation. You will be able to retrieve your messages from any computer.
By using the voice email feature, you are able to receive messages via an online answering machine and have them delivered to your email inbox, where you can listen to them at your leisure.