My last T charged $5 a minute for phone calls that lasted over 5 minutes (give or take) and finally started charging for emails (because she was getting swamped) so they were you could write only 5 pages a week and then she would charge $5 for each additional page. People knew not to expect a response unless it was urgent and they wrote that they needed one.

For me - I write, not talk. so we ended up only reading my weekly emails and discussing them, so she said "Maybe i shouldn't charge you for your emails" - because we would have had nothing to talk about. My "writer" gets around my internal censor which refuses to let me talk often times....ahh babling again.