I can't believe people have such an issue phoning for PPR. It takes about 2 minutes and most of the time its at strips where there's no weather info etc available. I quite often change my plans after phoning because of local weather, poor runway conditions etc plus I get advice about the circuit based on their local knowledge ( not every airfield is in the AIP or has a website...)
I always call if for some reason I'm not going to make it after all just to let them know. Most of the time I get the response "Thanks, hardly anyone ever does that".