Long Numbers

It is a time honored tradition to give customers really, really, really long account numbers. The reasons behind this practice are various. Here are a few observations:


 * They appear to exist to make customers say, "Gee, that's a really long number."
 * Obviously, if a number was too short, a crook could call in and say, "Duh, my account number is 123456789."
 * Hyphenations are apparently useless, and serve only to prevent Failstation from thinking you're e-mailing the customer a bunch of credit card information.
 * You cannot add or subtract numbers from an account number to get to another account, so there must be some sort of imaginary Ghost_Order's in between orders, ones that Failstation will never acknowledge as real, though the totally screw up the numbering order.
 * The company recycles tracking numbers, much like how the babies are absorbed in the Matrix movies. Logically it follows that they must recycle order numbers as well, although they'd have to be really old, or possibly a Ghost_Order number after the similarly numbered account has passed into the depths of account decay.