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Why not do this first every time?

> email to arrange a more suitable time

Or better yet, provide the important details over email and then if there is some unimaginable reason why an audio medium is still required to convey information (identify a bird call? place a long distance call with a whistle?) then contact over the phone.



Good luck convincing the entire world to do this.

Seeing phone to silent is a lot easier than expecting the world not to call you and getting annoyed when they do.


Because this assumes the person is always contactable by email. There is a none zero chance that the person is available for a phone call but not in front of email. Instead you see the email 3 hours later, the sender is now busy as are you so you land up in a game of email ping pong trying to arrange a time. Just put your phone on silent or don’t answer it if you’re not available.




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