About once a month when I turn on my phone in the morning and there are
messages, the new message alert doesn't sound nor do I see the new message
indicator. I just check my messages every time I turn on my phone (I amost
always have messages).



"rvfulltime" <rvfulltime@_removeme_isp.com> wrote in message
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>I turned off my cell phone today while visiting a museum. We're not big
> cell phone users, about 100 minutes a month on average. When I turned
> it back on a "voice mail ring" occurred. When I retrieved the message I
> found 3 other messages that were dated from February 6 and 7. These
> voice mail messages were delayed 17 days.
>
> I think I figured out what happened. From February 5th to the 10th we
> were in Whistler, BC, Canada. We turned the phone on a couple of
> times while we were there to confirm it was roaming territory, as we
> expected, but 90% of the time we left it turned off. When were returned
> to the U.S. on the 10th we naturally turned the phone back on. Since
> then no one has left us a message, because we always answered the
> phone when someone called. Those messages that were queued up
> while we were in Canada, stayed queued up until another message
> needed to be delivered, which happened today.
>
> And to answer your questions in advance... Yes we checked the phone
> several times to see if any messages were waiting. There were none. Yes
> we even called voice mail to see if any messages were waiting. There
> were none.
>
> I suspect that this never would have happened if we simply never turned
> on the phone while we were in Canada.
>
> Frustrating.
>
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