Caught in some odd wave of synchronicity, as I was, about 30 minutes after posting that, I was cold-called by some bozo giving out quotes for exterior paintwork ‘in my area’.
When I told him that a) I rented and b) I was on the National Do Not Call List, his immediate knee-jerk response was ‘oh, they’ve disbanded that‘…. to which I replied ‘ok, put your money where your mouth is – give me your number, and we’ll see who’s right’.
Needless to say, he said something like ‘sorry to bother you’ and hung up before I did.