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From: charlie
Date: 4/3/01
Time: 9:32:15 AM
I don't know how many of you get the GTE bills but they are on personal letter sized paper or the size that you commonly see for a Visa bill or the like.
The length is 8 1/4 inches long and the width is 6 3/4 inches wide.
There is a yellow strip along the white page which is on the left and is 1 1/4 inch long. The right edge has approx. 1/8 inches left after the last thing is typed.(amt)
The space on both the GTE bill and the Verizon bill for both GTE calls and for AT&T calls is ONLY 5 1/8 inches wide to get the date, place, number length of call, state, etc. into it.
The columns on both are EXTREMELY PRECISE and even. You cannot detect a hair's breath of difference in the columns (unlike the column of the minutes on the calls on the alleged Brown bill which appears to curve or be slightly off)
As I mentioned last night, all cities have 10 spaces alloted them and there is an even spacing between the columns. For example the State abbreviations on BOTH bills is equidistant between the place called and the number called--not closer to the place called than the number as on the alleged Brown bill. In other words, CA should be centered in between the two columns and it is not.
The AT&T bill does not number the calls but the Verizon does. My old GTE bill with AT&T calls doesn't number then either.
The Old GTE does not number them either but the new Verizon bill with GTE Long Distance does
The new Verizon with GTE Long Distance is the only one to put the day of the week in it. So with the same space available on the same size paper, the Verizon(GTE) adds a number for the call and the day of the week in the same space which crowds the columns more but still leaves plenty of space between the columns. Even closer together, there is 1/4 inch between the last letter of the city and the column with the states--and this is standard all the way down (several 10 letter places are on my bills).
This looks very much like that conveniently supplied page 6 that is blank has been copied on a machine, the bill typed onto to it(perhaps slightly enlarged) and then the new bill has been reduced back down.
This would be So Easy it is ridiculous. I have only an inexpensive personal copier but with one that will enlarge and reduce--it would be child's play--even if they bothered with that.
A half way adaquate typist could have done this.
I also tried this and it worked. I cut the top of the bill off--down to the preprinted date, time, etc line headers and cut and pasted it on without any lines showing up.
It would have been so easy to cut and paste the top of this bill (leaving out an ads or whatever), copy it enlarged a bit, type it on a REGULAR typewriter and then reducing it back down and copying again.
Any discrepancy could have been put off on the fact that they enlarged it themselves for better viewing. (since the edges of the bill do not show up when you copy it).
As I said, the PRECISE spacing on the REAL bill compared to this is a dead giveaway.
THe predetermined spacing of 10 spaces per city and the centered State (between the city and phone number), the exact straight down of the minutes (not on the Brown bill) etc--and the handy dandy convenient blank provided by the GTE company makes this child's play.
Whomever set the columns for the typewritten copy was not as precise as they should have been and perhaps did not realize the predetermined space allowed for a 10 space city (always) allowed them to make the error with the CA.
Just as there is a predetermined space for a 10 digit phone number or for the time of day to take up no more than 8 spaces (ex: 10:30 am). As on the Verizon bill, they allow for 3 letter abbreviations of the days with Thursday being THU.
And the column of 1 and 2 minutes for the calls would be perfectly straight with one number centered perfectly over the one below, etc.
charlie