phone call timing

[redbird]

This is a brief reminder that if you only want to talk to your representatives' voicemail, call outside local business hours. (Wherever you live, a congressmember's DC office is on East Coast time). After leaving a lot of messages in the last couple of months, I'd concluded that all my calls would go to voicemail, whether I called during the day or at 1 p.m.

Then one of Rep. Pressley's staffers answered the phone on Tuesday, which threw me off-script for a moment. As far as I know, they're counting calls, and your senator might care where in the state you're calling from, but a call at 7 a.m. or midnight counts as much as one during the day.