Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 23:17:24 PDT From: Doctor Math Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Invasion of the Phone Snatchers Message-ID: Organization: Brown Cow Software (a licensed Waffle developer) Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 290, Message 12 of 13 Lines: 22 scott@hsvaic.boeing.com (Scott Hinckley) writes: > When I was in Atlanta (back in the days of the $.10 pay phone) I was > connected to a wrong number by one of the bandits. When I called the > operator to try and get through to the correct number (I did not have > another dime) she would not connect me, but took my name and address. > A couple of weeks later I recieved a check (not coupon, real > honest-to-goodness check) for $.10 ... which was sent in an envelope > with a $.22 stamp on it! This happened to someone I knew, except that before taking his name and address, the operator pushed some mysterious button causing almost a dollar in change to come pouring out of the phone! (I was there, I saw.) > That seems like a pretty expensive way to deal with it ... I'm told it's around six dollars overhead for them to cut you a check. My guess is that the PR department eats the six bucks for "customer relations" and that the "lost" change is paid out of somewhere else.