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At 10:00 this morning we had someone round to read the gas meter.

At 14:15 we had someone round to read the electricity meter.

We get both from the same supplier. The meter readers worked for the same company.

Please explain.


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 2:21 pm
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Same situation as you: both from same supplier, both read by same company. We got a card saying they'd been but couldn't get access, so I phoned up and gave them both readings (having been undercharged and then stung for a big bill before). When the bill arrived, one was listed as a customer reading, the other as an estimate.

It's great that we can use privatisation of essential public utilities to enable these efficiency savings.


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 2:28 pm
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The efficiency of the free market. Yay!


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 2:42 pm
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Is it the supplier who organises the meter readings or is it the network? Could have been one guy from Transco and another from Central Networks.


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 3:02 pm
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I'd also wager that your road was dug up by the gasman not one month before being dug up again by the electricity man...!


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 3:03 pm
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What supplier?

Last guy that read mine, read both at the same time - British Gas


 
Posted : 27/02/2009 3:30 pm