How many times have you sat down to dinner with your family, or settled down to watch your favourite TV programme only to be interrupted by the telephone ringing?

Frustrating at the best of times, but then you get up to answer the phone and it is yet another unwanted sales call. You calmly and politely explain to the caller that you are not interested but they still persist in trying to tell you about their product or services.

Staying calm, you politely tell them that you are not interested for a second time and, again the salesperson continues with the sales patter. Frustrated you just hang up.

What if there was a way that you could stop receiving all those unwanted sales calls.

Well, you can. The telephone preference service (TPS) operates in the UK, with just that aim in mind.

Paid for by the direct marketing industry in the UK, the TPS allows individuals in the UK to register their wish to opt out of receiving unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls. It is a legal requirement that companies do not make such calls to numbers registered with the TPS.

Quite simply, all you have to do is visit the TPS Online website, click on "Register" and follow the instructions to have your number included on the TPS register.

Registering with the TPS is completely free of charge and you will stop receiving unsolicited calls just 28 days after registering your number.

If you should receive unsolicited calls after this you can visit the TPS website again and make a complaint against the company that called you.

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