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May 15, 2000

A bumpy road leads to map refund
I ordered a U.S. quarter-collector map in early January from a Bill Gale in Eden Prairie, Minn. My check was cashed, but since I still hadn't received the map by early March, I called the 800-number to follow up. What I got was a phone answering service that could only take new orders. It referred me to a number that was answered by a recording identifying itself as the New York Mint. No one ever responded to the message I left. As a further complication, we have now returned to Wisconsin and my wife has had her birthday without my gift of a quarter-collector map, something she wanted. Carl Wilkie


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