roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick) (09/15/90)
In article <12052@accuvax.nwu.edu>, roeber@portia.caltech.edu (Roeber, Frederick) writes... >I was trying to call Citibank VISA/MC, at the customer service number >they put on their bills. Since they have now started printing on my >bills a 619 number, with instructions to call collect, I rather doubt >they wanted their 800 number restricted to NA. In the ongoing saga to contact Citibank from Switzerland: One cannot call American numbers collect from Swiss pay telephones. The operators said it was impossible. This is particularly bad when the place one works/stays at has a policy (as does CERN) of forbidding private calls over institute phones. Add to this the fact that when dialling direct, it's hard to put in coins that fast.. Frederick Roeber/roeber@caltech.edu/+41 22 767 53 73/CERN, 1211 Geneva 23