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Frankly, I found this to be one of the most annoying aspects of
payphones in the UK, at least on the older style phones (which still
seem to be in most areas) that won't refund over-deposits.  Even on
local calls, you're forced to stuff additional 10 pence coins into
the slot (interrupting your call at the start after the initial tone
pips as well).  But what may be the worst part is that you have to carry
around a wad of 10p coins to make even short calls, and those coins,
while only worth about 14.5 U.S. cents at current exchange rates, are
rather big and heavy coins--very inconvenient to carry around in
quantity.  Yes, the card phones are appearing, but they still seem
pretty rare and your card is useless at "ordinary" phone boxes.

--Lauren--