said by PX Eliezer:Verizon does say that when a message is directed to your own Verizon VoiceMail, it's a call forward situation.
So that probably does account for some of it!!
Damm Verizon!
So we pay for their VoiceMail three ways:
1) Hefty fee for Verizon VoiceMail.
2) Separate fee for "Call Forwarding: Busy/NoAnswer", to get the calls to the VoiceMail.
3) Message units for those calls sent to VoiceMail.
That's a 3-way that's no fun.
Have you thought about putting together a small asterisk system just to be a voicemail system?? Ditch their voicemail all together. A small system on a good UPS could be kept up for hours during a power outage.