Telephone Company Check?

[samb]

I found this in the bottom of a box of covers I was sorting and I've had no luck finding any information about it. If anybody knows anything, please share, and Thank You

[khj]

This is from memory, but it looks a LOT like one of those certificates/checks that the "new" long distance phone companies such as MCI started to give out to woo customers after the breakup of the original AT&T. To try to get you to switch long distance companies, they would offer to pay the switching cost charged by the local phone company (i.e., the "Baby Bells"), so they would send you these certificates that you could use to pay your local phone company (this was back in the days when most people paid bills by check).

They would add other gimmicks as well, including bonuses for getting friends to switch... Eventually, they would migrate from these certificates to bill credits and gift cards.

Again, this is from memory, but it does look a lot like the MCI certificates -- and the certificate is issued on a Dallas bank.