Friday, May 9, 2014

The saga of the trash cans .... continues!!!

After the so called 'roll-out' of the new trash cans, you remember, they couldn't decide when we were to get delivery and then the day of the week for collection of trash was up for discussion? And we had 10!!??




Had a call from the Palm Springs Disposal Service a couple of days ago. "Hello, this is the Palm Springs Disposal Service. Do you know who we are?" No, I said, are you the people who read the gas meter?? Honestly, do I know who they are? Am I stupid? Anyhow I was told that it had come to light due to some rigorous review that we had been undercharged by A LOT over the last 13 years and that our new monthly collection fee would be going from $56.10 each month to ... drum roll ... wait for it ... $244.80!!!!! LOL. Anyhow, he agreed they would  take away 5 of the new trash cans to reduce our monthly payment to $122.40, still double what we have been paying for the last 13 years. .  We agreed on a day when they would be collected. Were they? Of course not. It took an e-mail and another day before they turned up. Talk about ineptitude!!  Well done Gas Meter Readers!