Recently we've had a plethora of meter readers coming round to read various meters at our place. We became a bit annoyed when we had two people come round in the same week to read the electric meter so we queried this with our utilities provider and got an interesting answer.

Our particular utilities provider (one of the new breed that bundles utilities with phone, Internet, etc. together) informed us that only one company was authorised by them to do meter readings and no one else was to be coming round. At all. For any reason! Hmmm, interesting... Read more...