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Subject: RE: Re: Your AT&T Oppurtunity Calling Benefits
Message-ID: <968@druxm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 10:59:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 10:59:19 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 03:43:53 EDT
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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< Let me clarify.>

>> ...Having received nothing  at all at home concerning  Opportunity Calling,
>> I decided to call the toll-free number...  When  I  told the operator  that
>> I hadn't gotten the catalog describing  the program, she replied, "Fine.  I
>> can *register* you immediately"..I protested that the original explanations
>> of the  program implied that I was automatically registered, and didn't the
>> program  begin back in  April?  She told me no and yes...

>	My experience shows this is not the case.  After reading this article
>I called AT&T Oppurtunity Calling.  I was informed that I had indeed been
>automatically signed up to the program and had received credit for calls
>back to April (the operator even told me how much I had in credit).  When I
>asked why I hadn't received my statement yet, the operator said that they were
>mailed out near the end of September.  However, they went out fourth class
>mail, the slowest (and cheapest) method.  She was very polite, and said if
>I didn't get a statement in a couple weeks to call back and a duplicate would
>be mailed out first class.  So I don't know what happened in Rick's case,
>but it certainly doesn't appear that they sent out info that everybody would be
>automatically signed up and then didn't sign anybody up.
>
>					Douglas Blondin
>					AT&T Information Systems, Denver
>					ihnp4!druxj!blondin

     Sorry, I evidently didn't make myself crystal clear.  The essential
difference in my case (and in every case I've encountered except DJB and
one other person) is that  I  never received the program catalog back in
the spring.   If you  did receive  the catalog  listing the  cooperating
businesses,  etc.,  then  *you *were* automatically registered in April*
(although it wouldn't hurt to double-check).   Otherwise, you might have
fallen through the cracks, as I did.  It's not that  Opportunity Calling
didn't enroll anybody, it's that they didn't enroll *everybody*.

****************

No, I didn't ask if they need original bills for retroactive credit, since
I only have copies myself (people have inquired),

Rick Windhausen		...ihnp4!druxm!raw
* The above, as always, is personal opinion. *