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.