Some Pennsylvania Lottery players unable to cash in their winnings
A small percentage of people were unable to cash in their winnings from Pennsylvania Lottery this week, as reported by Times Leader:
Veronica Anderson, spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Lottery, said there was a “minor glitch” in the computer system for the June 17th Powerball drawing.
Anderson said the glitch occurred when a software conversion took place that day.
Approximately 200 out of 87,000 winning Powerball tickets were affected, Anderson said.
“Retailers were aware of the conversion,” Anderson said. “We experienced a minor problem affecting 200 tickets that weren’t in the system.”
Playing the Lottery is a losing proposition for the majority of players. It must be particularly frustrating to be prevented from cashing in, if you do actually win something – no matter how little.
Phone billing errors in South Devon
Post Office Telecom Services sent out numerous erroneous phone bills to households in South Devon, England, according to this report:
Mr Postlethwaite of Lee Court, Centry Road, Brixham, had been a BT customer until recently switching to Talk Talk.
He said: “I have always paid my bills and, in fact, when I left BT I had a cheque back from them because I was in credit. I had always paid my bills on time.”
Mr Postlethwaite says he has now been told it was a computer error and thousands of similar incorrect bills have gone out.
From the article it is hard to tell, whether non-customers received bills, too. No action needs to be taken and the bills can be discarded. It looks like the fault (and expense) lies entirely with the phone company and their computer system.
Small glitch in Idaho Lottery message system
KMTV reports that Idaho Lottery had a glitch with their message system:
A message was sent telling people with winning tickets less than $600 they had to travel to Boise to claim their prize.
The error is already fixed and Lottery players with the affected winning tickets are able to cash in at their local retailers.
