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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: MCI Mail Rates Being Increased
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Date: 20 Oct 90 19:28:13 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 747, Message 7 of 7


Tad Cook wrote in volume 10, issue 727:

| With my MCI Mail bill today was an insert saying that they are going
| to have a rate change November 1.  The rate for an MCI Mailbox will
| now be THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR!  It was free when I signed up, then
| $15 a year.  They are also raising Telex rates.

I'd say it's more of a "fee increase" or a "charge increase" than a
"rate increase" because the costs per letter are not going up.
Anyhow, the annual mailbox fee has been $25 for some time now;
Tad/Paul/Tadpole (is that how you got the nickname?), check how much
you were charged on your last anniversary.

Although the stated annual mailbox fee was $25 when I signed up this
past April, it was waived for my first year under some special that I
was told I had lucked into.  Perhaps such specials are very frequent
and either just about everyone gets the first year's fee waived, or
perhaps Tad also signed up under such a special offer and the stated
annual mailbox fee was already greater than zero at the time.

Customers on the preferred pricing option (which is still $10 per
month) will have the annual fee waived after the first year, as
before; I called and checked on that as soon as I received the notice
in my own September bill (which, by the way, arrived rather earlier in
the following month than previous bills had, around October 8 rather
than the nineteenth or twentieth; they must be trying to improve their
cash flow).


David Tamkin  Box 7002  Des Plaines IL  60018-7002  708 518 6769  312 693 0591
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