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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by isostatic on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:00PM (#16794772)
"person to person call"

Unlike a person to machine call?

I'm in my late 30s and I remember one other reference to a "person to person call" - I think it was a Simpsons episode from when I were the one making calls from school!

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Re:Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (2001) by ghaff on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:05PM (#16794818)
FYI for others, in the US at least a "person to person" call was an operator-assisted call in which you didn't need to pay if the person you were supposedly trying to reach wasn't available.

And a collect call meant that the party receiving the call was the one who paid. Collect calls at least still exist. I've used them when calling a credit card company from overseas.

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