@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
There is absolutely NO WAY anyone from any medicare office is ringing your door bell on any day of any week.
Medicare could care less about any one person male or female at age 64 to knock on one's door to make certain you are signed up for this glorious process. No one.
NO ONE.
DO NOT LET ANY PERSON INTO YOUR HOME WHO CLAIMS TO BE HELPING YOU FROM ANY MEDICARE OFFICE USA. CALL THE MEDICARE POLICE.
The OP clearly indicates the person at the door was from a company trying to sell insurance related to Medicare. Nowhere does she say a representative from a Medicare office was calling. You have conflated a cold call visit from an insurance agency to a possible home invasion by a government employee at Medicare. Dramatic, inaccurate and pretty silly. You sound like Chicken Little advising that “the sky is falling”. It’s a reasonable warning that Medicare doesn’t come calling, but it didn’t require ALL CAPS, and it’s irrelevant to the first post, which was more about wasted time than dangerous intrusions.
Everyone who is so offended at the audacity of an insurance agent ringing the doorbells of his potential client list to sell a product, should try to recall that not much more than 50 years ago lots of people sold lots of things that way. There was the Fuller Brush rep, Avon ladies, vacuum salesmen, encyclopedia salesmen. Even faith was offered through The Watchtower Witnesses calling at your door with tracts and chats. If it wasn’t successful, folks would not have tried all those doors. It stopped primarily because there were better, faster, cheaper marketing methods as technology became more common to households. Not because people didn’t want to open their doors. (QVC would not have been successful in the days when relatively few homes had TVs, let alone color TVs! It evolved as a full time marketer on TV in the day when there’s a TV in every home, perhaps in every room of American homes.)
Yes, these days we feel it’s so dangerous to speak to a stranger we talk to solicitors behind the electronic doorbell, but not every stranger is a danger and people do still try to make a living without appointments, just knocking on doors hawking their product, calling on the phone, reaching out through email. All unsolicited nuisances using various means to capture our interest, not always in our best interest.
All this Colonial Penn young man was doing was appearing in person, trying to do what robo calls and spam does by other means. A firm “no thank you” accomplishes the same as hanging up or deleting does for the other types of soliciting pests we encounter.
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