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Just a few semi random thoughts.

What if you have an automatic recording that preceeds an answer that basically says: "You have reached a solicitor free phone number. All solicitors or polsters that do not hang up now will be billed at a rate of $60 per hour."?

Can someone establish a specific tone as a no solicitor sign for the phone? If you have to buy or manufacture one for you house, it is only "fair" to have to buy one for your phone number.

If the postal box belongs to the government, what if you only pull out the letters that you are willing to claim as your own? Can we simply leave the rest in the box or mark them "return to sender"? Do we have a legal responsibility to accept and receive mail sent to our name and address?

You could already demand to be off their call list, but it wasn't nearly so easy as you're hoping for. You had to get to their manager and demand to be put on their list, it was helpful to remind them of the penalties for not complying, you'd also want to get the name of the telemarketing company so you could record when you went on the list in case they violated it. And it was one company at a time. IMHO if they hadn't made the process of getting removed from their lists such a pain the government list would never have been born.

You can mark junk mail return to sender, most of it will be thrown away but they'll generally take it out. As for leaving crap in your box that's between you and your mailman, eventually if it gets too full they'll stop putting new mail in.