Re: Reporting calls
Because nobody's partner ever got suspicious when they received an unexpected letter from the local NHS trust?
There are any number of reasons to withhold the number being called from. For instance, my partner works in victim services for the police. When she calls a victim of crime, she has to make sure she is talking to the right person, especially if they happen to be a victim of domestic violence (DV), which makes up about half of her case load. Withholding the phone number here has an obvious use case, especially when she has to use her own mobile phone, when working from home, because the shitty cheapest-you-could-find Nokias the local force got hold of get no reception, despite being on the same network.
As for sending letters with sensitive information, which a DV perpetrator could open, that is the sort of thing that can get someone killed. A woman is killed in the UK as a result of domestic violence every two days, or thereabouts. Since the pandemic started, the case numbers have gone up sharply as well, with people staying at home.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
