I get a letter telling me I need additional $329 deposit because in the past 6 months my bill was paid 1 day late once and 2 days late twice. Never did the bill roll into next months and never did I ask for an extension to get it paid. My wife has medical issues and the co-pays sometimes force me to pay the Dr's first. How nice it must be in this economy when people are unsure if they have a job next week, businesses hope invoices get paid and times are tough for all that the electric co. gets to use the threat of no service to make sure they get paid first. I can borrow the money or cash in some time @ work to cover the deposit but how in the hell would an unemployed person deal with it??..
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SunnyD
Belgian Waffler
Utility companies surprise me with what they can get away with sometimes. Then again, it really is surprising how much shit they have to deal with from deadbeats too - which explains the deposits. I do agree with though - FPL has one of the absolute worst deposit schemes ever.
They can get away with it because electricity is something you can't go without. Can you imagine a car finance co. demanding a 1 1/2 months payment up front or they will repo the car all because of 3 payments that were 1-3 days late?. I'm calling the FL public service commission tomorrow to file a complaint, doubt it will do any good but if enough folks complain, who knows..
This is why having private companies provide a necessity such as electricity isn't good. Government run electric companies are much more efficient, and they don't care about profits like private ones. If you had a government run power company, they wouldn't be sending letters like this.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
Yes, goverment employees are never greedy or corrupt...
Ours does not, and a new co. might not be any better. Bottom line is they are suppling a commodity which one must have and using that leverage to make ridiculous rules. When I called to discuss the situation I got a message "we are experiencing extremely high calls today, expect a long delay", gee, I wonder why..Again, I can deal with this but a lot of folks living on unemployment (which maxes out in FL@ $275/week) will not be able to..
What I do know is this. We pay around 20% less then the people in the county over. The difference, WE have government run power. They have a power from a private company PG&E.
Cost of funding for government run power is lower. Government run power doesn't have to pay taxes. They can issue tax free bonds. Their revenue isn't subject to taxes. Private run power has to pay all kinds of taxes. Lower cost of funds means lower rates for consumers.
Just give them a call...its probably an automatically generated letter. The companies have to do this because of all the deadbeats out there. You have no idea how many people don't pay their bill...they can only get locked off certain times of the year. During the winter and summer months, they aren't allowed to be locked off due to the cold and hot weather. So many people are late on their payments and i've seen some ridiculous payment arrangements. With some of these payment arrangements they're bills will never get paid off.
They have a company to run. All of this could have been avoided if you just paid on time. I understand things came up...and if you call them and explain to them, I'm sure they'll understand too.
They have a company to run. All of this could have been avoided if you just paid on time. I understand things came up...and if you call them and explain to them, I'm sure they'll understand too.
AlienCraft
Lifer
WRONG, Utlilities are the last refuge of State sponsored monopolists.
Brainonska511
Lifer
Power distribution still has to be a monopoly though, who wants a zillion different power lines hanging on the poles?
AlienCraft
Lifer
You are obviously very young, or have never applied for utility service.
The service is attached to an address. In most locales, any past due amounts would need to be rectified before new service can be started.
AND there is a lot of IDENTIFICATION one needs to supply, which might be in conflict with that "new name" scenario you propose.
AlienCraft
Lifer
fixed it for you Private industry LESS corrupible than Government? Boy, that's rich. Take a look at the financial sector for proof of what unsupervised deregulation does for corruption.
Oh, and Can you still spell ENRON ? Unless you remember the past, you're going to repeat it.
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