Free web service Pinger lets you send instant, straight-to-voicemail messages to anyone in your contact list.
There are a lot of pros and cons to a service like Pinger. On the plus side, you don't have to wade through long voicemail prompts when you want to send someone a voicemail. Instead, you just call Pinger and say the name of the person you want to message (actually, you can say several names if you want to send the voicemail to more than one contact), record the message, and you're done. You can tell Pinger worked hard to streamline this procedure. Sending voicemail with Pinger is, potentially, very fast.
The downside to Pinger is that - for it to really be useful - your contacts need to be using Pinger as well. Before they've signed up, you have to add them as email contacts; new messages you create with Pinger will go to their email inbox rather than their phone. Once they've signed up with Pinger, they'll receive a text message alerting them to new Pinger voicemails.
In all, Pinger would make a great voicemail replacement for basically any carrier I've ever been with. Unfortunately, it's not backed by a carrier. If you want to use it as a 3rd party voicemail service, you've got to do the legwork to make it happen. If you're not ready to switch, you might want to familiarize yourself with a few shortcuts to skip right to the beep with your most oft-used carrier.
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