Is Verizon tagging on extra minutes to each of your calls?

I'm on a limited Verizon plan paying nearly $80 a month.  I get 420 minutes, then 45 cents a minute after that.
My problem is Verizon is adding on extra minutes to each of my calls. This has been going on for years, but I let it go since I never used more than 200 minutes in one month - but now I have no land line and I'm not going to put up with this crap.  Today I made and received 4 calls total from outside my Verizon network.  According to Verizon's website I used 36 minutes - this was what I came up with when I added up the minutes for those 4 calls. Yet on the same page they show 45 minutes having been used.
Anyone else getting cheated like this?
My cousin ditched Verizon and has been trying to get me to switch to Walmart's Straight Talk plan with unlimited minutes for $45 a month.  Looks like I'll be going down that path, too.  It's a shame.  Verizon has been the best choice for years, but their greed will eventually kill them.

Well cindylu187, Straight Talk DOES use Verizon Towers... so the calls will be ok, depending on where you are, because you might just bounce of a T-Mobile tower.. who knows.. BUT the so called "unlimited" data.. is not so unlimited... and THEN you will barely get 2.5G before you get throttled.. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

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