A historic toll calling service where the caller instructs the human operator to connect them only to a specific person at the destination number. If the requested party was unavailable, the call was not completed and the caller incurred no charges. This carried a higher per-minute rate than standard station-to-station calls due to the manual operator intervention required.
Heard on the job
I need to place a person-to-person call to the site manager, please.
Insider tip
Callers used this feature to send free, pre-arranged signals; for example, asking for a fictitious person like "Mr. Arrived" to let their family know they reached their destination safely without paying for a call.