Just got keys. Help!

piggles1

I moved into a place with a prepayment meter that had a debt on it. When I called the utility company they came out, reset the meters to zero and gave me new keys for the meters, so the debt was not mine to pay off. They said I'd need to put some credit on the keys while I waited for them to change the meters over to credit meters. This took a few weeks so I had to buy enough leccy and gas on the keys to last (£10 gas and £20 leccy).

They also said when they swap the meters over they'd take the money that was still on them, unused from my new keys, off my next bill. When they swapped the meters over they wrote this total still remaining on the prepayment meters on a card in the meter box, and although I kept a close eye on it, the money did come back.

All letters for the previous occupant went back in the post box 'return to sender'. The leccy/gas company will still write to the address about the money owing because they have no other address to send the demands to. And yes sometimes you have to show door visitors some ID to prove you're not the person who owed the money, but these are rare and usually it's just post that arrives.

PlutoinCapricorn

p00hsticks wrote: »

Personally, i'd mark them 'no longer at this address - return to sender' and put them back in the post box. That might stop follow up letters arriving, which just throwing them away won't.

I agree. I have been doing this to help out the owner of the empty flat close to mine. They have dropped to a trickle now. I just write in the outside:

Return to sender
Addressee moved
No forwarding address

and drop them in the postbox.

savingfortomorrow

You may feel like getting a ink stamp with the words return to sender, you will be writing it that often. I considered buying one of them with a recent house move. pity they aren't available with packing supplies and removals. Just change the locks it may prevent trouble.

[Deleted User]

savingfortomorrow wrote: »

You may feel like getting a ink stamp with the words return to sender, you will be writing it that often.

Print off a few sheets of labels at work if you work in an office

another_casualty

I thought the op wants to get rid of the prepayment meter permanently.
( not another one fitted) I doubt if that can be done , once one has been fitted. What's the sore there then?

t0rt0ise

another_casualty wrote: »

I thought the op wants to get rid of the prepayment meter permanently.
( not another one fitted) I doubt if that can be done , once one has been fitted. What's the sore there then?

Course it can. Some companies charge, some make you wait a certain length of time, some just change them for nothing. I got mine changed for nothing although it took a few weeks.

another_casualty

Thanks tortoise, good to know