On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:53:05 +0100, Steve Fitzgerald ]
wrote:

In message , Exchange
writes

We've never had 0207 numbers in London - they were in the Consett/Stanley
area in the North East. Try dialling 222 1234 locally and see what
happens.

Well you've got that very wrong, I live in Lambeth and MY number
is 0207.
And so is Scotland Yard, Waterloo station, Battersea power station
Selfridges, Every theatre in Covent Garden, Paddington Green,
Arding and Hobbs Clapham Junction, The Bull and Bush Mayfair,
The Worlds end Camden Town, Billy B of Bermondsey etc etc

Wrong - they are all 020

You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
(please use the reply to address for email)
Yours must be an 0208 number?

Nope, it's an 020 number.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.
--
Paul C


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In message , Paul Corfield
writes

Well you've got that very wrong, I live in Lambeth and MY number
is 0207.
And so is Scotland Yard, Waterloo station, Battersea power station
Selfridges, Every theatre in Covent Garden, Paddington Green,
Arding and Hobbs Clapham Junction, The Bull and Bush Mayfair,
The Worlds end Camden Town, Billy B of Bermondsey etc etc

Wrong - they are all 020

You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
Yours must be an 0208 number?

Nope, it's an 020 number.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.

One does one's best
--
Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building.
You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
(please use the reply to address for email)

Nope, it's an 020 number.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.

Thanks also for showing that it isn't just me that gets irritated by it.

Mayday University Hospital still sends out appointment letters with an 0181
number appearing on them so I suppose that is even worse than it would be if
they used 0208.

G.

In message , Graham J
writes
Nope, it's an 020 number.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.

Thanks also for showing that it isn't just me that gets irritated by it.

Mayday University Hospital still sends out appointment letters with an 0181
number appearing on them so I suppose that is even worse than it would be if
they used 0208.

No doubt they will just change the 0181 to 0208 on the replacement batch
of letters they order, and perpetuate the confusion :s

I really can't understand why this has all become so confusing.
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that. I suppose with the advent of mobile phones,
people are more and more used to dialling the full number wherever they
are - I know I frequently do.
--
Steve Fitzgerald has now left the building.
You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
(please use the reply to address for email)

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:

Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that.

Somehow, I imagine there are many people in London who don't know that
they can do that.
--
Michael Hoffman

On Mar 29, 12:12 am, Michael Hoffman wrote:
Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that.

Somehow, I imagine there are many people in London who don't know that
they can do that.

The scary thing is that this was such a simple change, and there are
still 59% of the population who don't understand it. Just tax the
stupid people!

On Mar 29, 1:29 pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:12 am, Michael Hoffman wrote:

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that.

Somehow, I imagine there are many people in London who don't know that
they can do that.

The scary thing is that this was such a simple change, and there are
still 59% of the population who don't understand it. Just tax the
stupid people!


They do. Have you heard of the National Lottery?

On 29 Mar 2007 12:31:17 -0700, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 29, 1:29 pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:12 am, Michael Hoffman wrote:

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that.

Somehow, I imagine there are many people in London who don't know that
they can do that.

The scary thing is that this was such a simple change, and there are
still 59% of the population who don't understand it. Just tax the
stupid people!


They do. Have you heard of the National Lottery?

That's not a tax on stupidity per se, more a tax on hope.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.

Thanks also for showing that it isn't just me that gets irritated by it.

Mayday University Hospital still sends out appointment letters with an
0181
number appearing on them so I suppose that is even worse than it would be
if
they used 0208.

No doubt they will just change the 0181 to 0208 on the replacement batch
of letters they order, and perpetuate the confusion :s

Well the letters actually also all have the correct 020 number too and are
computer generated so it is more human laziness I suspect. It looks like
they have a standard template for each department to put in its appointments
number and it defaults to the old 0181 version of the switchboard. So it is
not only a useless number but even updated it is the wrong one.

G.

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 Steve Fitzgerald wrote:

In message , Graham J
writes
Nope, it's an 020 number.

Well done on generating about 30 responses from such a simple remark.

Thanks also for showing that it isn't just me that gets irritated by it.

Mayday University Hospital still sends out appointment letters with an 0181
number appearing on them so I suppose that is even worse than it would be if
they used 0208.

No doubt they will just change the 0181 to 0208 on the replacement batch
of letters they order, and perpetuate the confusion :s

I really can't understand why this has all become so confusing.

I can. It's because the London numbers changed from 071 and 081 to 0171
and 0181 at the time they introduced area codes starting 01. Had they
gone straight to 020 at that time, much of the confusion would never
have happened.

Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that. I suppose with the advent of mobile phones,
people are more and more used to dialling the full number wherever they
are - I know I frequently do.

And that is of course what you have to enter into a Caller ID phone
memory to get it to display the name.
--
Thoss