Can you believe they made such a mistake?? still I squeezed £25 in compensation from them.
So I did say when I am 6 ft under I will ring them and let them know
Staff Edit: Edited out personal Details and reposted for Bazza
Wait, you got £25 compensation for being alive?! Blimey, I need to contact all my utility providers to let them know I'm fine (well, bit of a sore back but I'll soldier on).
You should consider yourself fortunate. A chap I knew died and some fool at British Gas sent out a similar letter addressed to The Executioners of the late Mr. Robert Price.
In actual fact I don't know if they can actually claim off a dead person or the estate left. The contract would have been between the utility company and the deceased only. If a person dies then that contract ceases,there can be no blame on a person dying. That is unless there is some hidden clause in the contract. It would be interesting in court, on one side a utility company barrister and on the other side a corpse. Of course it would be a rather one sided affair and if the judge waited for a response from the corpse before giving judgement etc etc.
Sorry my mind does head off in funny directions at times
my bank did that to me in 2003 when I tried to change my address, they didn't think it odd that my work were still paying my wages and they carried on paying all the DDs and allowed me to withdraw money!
Talk Talk tried to take my dead husband to court over an unpaid bill for an email account about which I had no knowledge and of course I couldn't cancel the account as I had no knowledge of any details of it. But it took well over 6 months to settle that.,
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