Telecom Equipment-Return Billing Errors Despite Confirmed Receipt
A customer returned telecom equipment that the carrier confirmed receiving, yet an internal warehouse routing error caused the billing system to charge the customer for unreturned equipment anyway. Support could not reverse the erroneous $600 charge despite documented proof of return, exposing a structural gap between logistics tracking and billing systems.
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