After shredding all my old mobile phone bills that traced my history across three different phone numbers and just as many carriers that included moves from personal plans to business plans, I turned my attention to the next folder of paper. It was my stack of electricity bills. Electricity bills don't normally garner much interest but this included my first ever electricity bill, dated 24 July 2001, from when I bought my first house. My first bill was for $127.69 and I had used an average of 5.8kw per day or cost $1.19. I had signed up to Pulse, which was run by United Energy. A year later the industry was deregulated so that retailers and wholesalers were separated and Pulse turned into AGL.
Looking at the name on the bill, I remembered that they kept spelling my name wrong during that first year despite numerous phone calls to correct them.
This sort of history probably isn't really interesting to anyone except for the people involved; me. It was fun to stroll down another of memory's lanes before these documents hit the shredder.
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