Dig@uunet.uu.net (08/21/90)
Western Union's city mnemonics are more like code words than abbreviations, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about. I work at a store that provides Western Union services, and people use these code words whenever they make a "Quick Collect Payment" (Which is a payment made to a specific company, usually a credit card company, to pay a bill. The company doesn't have to make any special effort to collect what was sent to them. Apparently this service is used to make payments at the last possible moment.) You may want to try calling Western Union again. They recently went through some labor problems, and were using a lot of "scabs". You may have talked to one of these. They are back to their union operators now, who, generally, have been around longer and know what's going on. Dig@cup.portal.com