I looked back at more of Patty's description of her contact adventures - Patty, look at the blog post about contacting them, it offers a lot of options that I found. When you enter your address and phone that is how they verify you are from where you say you are. They don't sell phone numbers or addresses. I use an alternate phone (my old house phone number was ported Google Voice to keep the number because it is still tied to some accounts). I use that number and I use one of my alternate email addresses (not the one for real bills and the doctors' offices and such.) You do have to give a physical address also.

If you call and choose to speak to a member of the staff chances are you end up on voicemail anyway, but leave your message. They keep track of the subjects people call about. (It's hard to speak to a real person, even if it is an intern manning the phones, but that is the gold standard, to read your message to them.)

I picked up a couple of bottles of the whisky I like and the clerk said she's heard that the Canadian sellers have removed the American brands from their shelves. Even without tariffs at the moment, this is one of many areas where people might do well to put in a supply for a couple of months. The northern tier states were going to get clobbered with electricity fees (because power from Canada is sold to the US) and that paused. Gas prices will go up, lumber will go way up. For those of us decluttering via eBay or other sales locations, sales might get weird. I don't have many out of the US sales, but they do happen, usually to Canada or Australia. (I may need to buy my veterinary medications that come from Australia before he slaps a tariff on their stuff.)

Life is enough of an obstacle course in "normal" times. This mess is because of a spoiled churlish despot. 1407 days and some hours and minutes left in his term as of now.