Your Bill For Using Zero Gallons Of Water: $92.65

By consumeristcarey March 30, 2008

Mark writes:
I recently was forced to move for work. Considering the home market, it won’t be a shock that I haven’t been able to sell my own home. I’m still paying utilities since I need them on for showing the house. The city where I used to live recently raised the rates of the minimum water bill by about $35, making my new bill for zero gallons used a whopping $92.65 (this is New Mexico remember). This is not my issue though.

Among the “improvements” that have come with the rate increase has been new and improved water bills with return envelopes. I’m attaching a picture of the bill and the envelope. Look at it closely and think of what would happen if I put the bill in the return envelope, stamp it and send it off. I’ll give you a hint, I’d waste a stamp and it’d come right back to me!

I sent an email about it last month to the “Deputy Village Manager” who assured me it would be fixed. It wasn’t.

Sincerely,
Mark
Albuquerque, NM

We hope they aren’t planning another rate increase to compensate for the sudden spike in delinquent accounts.

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Comments

  1. thejynxed says:
    April 1, 2008 at 2:01 am

    @ogman: I used to live in York, Manchester, York Haven, Springettsberry Township and a few other places in that neck of the woods. Utilities in that area have always been ridiculous.

  2. noisetube says:
    April 1, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    The cities in New Mexico are notoriously bad when it comes to billing for usage. I live in southern NM and the city charged me $180 in gas bills.. when there was zero usage and they hadn’t even lit my pilot lights. I fought with the city for months, pointing out that they had never turned my gas on but decided to charge me for it nonetheless. Each time it was, “oh, okay, we’ve turned it off and you won’t be billed.” Guess what came yesterday in the mail? A $180 collections bill from the city from over a year ago.

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