Perhaps the UK placement in the hall nearest to the front door is related to the fact that for many years the Post Office (and subsequently BT) were the only agency who could legally connect phones to the Public Telecommunications System, and charged over the (standard) odds for extensions and the like within a home -- so it was cheapest to have the phone engineer hardly venture a foot within the house?
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Date: 2007-05-10 05:32 pm (UTC)