customer service numbers we called

I looked at the customer service numbers at https://call4.me/companies. Call one of these companies for me.

If you don't have the call4me tools (call4me_*) yet, add the call4me MCP server first and sign me in:
   - Claude Code:  claude mcp add --scope user --transport http call4me https://call4.me/mcp  (then I run /mcp, pick call4me, and choose authenticate)
   - Codex:        codex mcp add call4me --url https://call4.me/mcp  then  codex mcp login call4me
   - Claude Desktop, claude.ai, or ChatGPT: add a custom connector with the URL https://call4.me/mcp and sign in when it asks.
   - Muse: build a custom integration to the call4me remote MCP server at https://call4.me/mcp (streamable HTTP) with the official MCP SDK. Ask me for my call4me API key (it's at https://call4.me/account) through your secure credential flow, never in chat, store it in your Secure Credentials Store, and send it as Authorization: Bearer <key>. List the tools, test call4me_get_balance, and save it as a reusable skill.
   - Grok Bot: add a custom MCP server called call4me (remote HTTPS, no headers, no auth) at my personal server URL, which I copy from https://call4.me/account. You add it from this chat; no separate approval is needed. If you offer sign-in instead, use https://call4.me/mcp and I sign in.
   - grok.com: you can't add connectors from the chat, so I do it: grok.com/connectors, New Connector, Custom, with the URL https://call4.me/mcp, then I sign in.
   - If you can't sign me in, I copy my personal server URL from https://call4.me/account and you use that instead.
   I sign in with Google or X.

1. Ask me which company and what I need from them. Open its call4me post (linked on that page) for the number and the phone tree path that reached a person.
2. Call call4me_get_requirements for the matching category and ask me for everything it needs that you don't already have, in one message.
3. Place the call with call4me_place_call, put the phone tree path from the post in the goal, show me the calling_number it returns, then keep calling call4me_get_call with wait_seconds until it finishes. Answer any open question right away with call4me_answer_question; the business is waiting on the line.
4. Tell me the result in one or two lines.

every company here has a post with a real recorded call to its customer service line: the phone tree, what got us to a person, the full recording and transcript. times are from the start of the published recording to the first live person, on one call (or the call that got through). how long it takes to reach a human compares them all, and the raw data is a csv.

airlines and travel

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
American Airlines	800-433-7300	1:40	no	2026-10-01 (2 calls)
Delta	800-221-1212	16:15	yes	2026-10-08
Etihad	+1 914-303-8393	2:21	no	2026-10-01
Hertz	1-800-654-4173	3:07	yes	2026-10-08 (3 calls)
United Airlines	1-800-864-8331	19:09	yes	2026-10-01

banking, payments and credit

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
Experian	1-888-397-3742	no person on our call	no	2026-09-30
Fifth Third Bank	800-972-3030	1:44	no	2026-10-08
PayPal	1-888-221-1161	4:30	yes	2026-10-08

insurance and health

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
AAA (Mountain West)	877-323-4222	1:24	no	2026-10-08
Allstate	800-726-6033	2:08	no	2026-10-02
Amazon Pharmacy	855-745-5725	3:40	yes	2026-09-28
UnitedHealthcare	1-888-585-0631	1:04	no	2026-10-01
USAA	800-531-8722	3:28	no	2026-10-01

phone, internet and tv

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
DIRECTV	800-531-5000	2:47	yes	2026-10-08 (2 calls)
Spectrum	(833) 267-6094	7:49	no	2026-10-01
Verizon	800-922-0204	5:52	yes	2026-10-01 (2 calls)
Windstream (Kinetic)	(866) 703-8175	0:55	no	2026-10-08 (3 calls)

shipping

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
FedEx	1-800-463-3339	no person on 4 calls	yes	2026-10-01 (4 calls)
UPS	1-800-742-5877	5:57	no	2026-10-01 (2 calls)

shopping and home

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
Aquasana	not published	7:49	no	2026-10-06
Fabletics	1-844-322-5384	1:08	yes	2026-10-02
Pottery Barn	1-888-779-5176	0:49	no	2026-10-08
Wayfair	844-403-5086	1:12	yes	2026-09-30 (2 calls)

subscriptions

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
Audible	888-283-5051	2:00	no	2026-10-02
Factor	(888) 573 5727	2:00	no	2026-10-03 (2 calls)
Fubo	(844) 441 3826	1:59	yes	2026-10-03 (2 calls)
HelloFresh	(646) 846 3663	1:40	no	2026-10-03
Hulu	877-824-4858	1:28	no	2026-10-08
SiriusXM	(866) 635 8641	reached, time not stated	yes	2026-10-07

utilities

company	number we called	time to a person	ai answered first	called
FPL	1-888-988-8249	3:07	no	2026-10-01 (5 calls)

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