Mystery Solved

I have had my current cell phone for probably two years and there is this one thing that has always bugged me. Even though I check and delete my voicemail messages, the stupid little envelope that's supposed to indicate new messages would never go away.
So yesterday as we're driving around, Jennifer (who gets and initiates way more calls than I do) was playing with my phone and discovered that I had a bunch of unread numeric pages on the phone, too! The first one was from September 11 (that date still sounds ominous) but it was just a local call.
So after clearing all the pages, the envelope is gone! Yay! Maybe I will now notice new voicemails, since the phone does not flash like it's supposed to :-(