Have You Ever Missed to Pay Utility Bills Until it got Disconnected?

@ZedSmart (19786)
Philippines
November 13, 2019 10:25am CST
Forget to pay or make a delayed payment then surely you will receive a reminder that your services from those providers will be put on hold (just the case of Internet connection) or services will be disconnected until payment has been made in case of power supply. But what if you’re not able to receive your bill or the final disconnection notice? I’m sure you will be surprise to see disconnection team at your doorstep and if you’re not around, you will just learn that the services went off because it’s not functional. Being put to on hold status is not that bad because if you make payment immediately, in a span of 24 hours it will be reconnected once paid. In the case of disconnected services like the power supply, it’s a bit stressful because you have to re-apply for the reconnection and you need to comply requirements with an affidavit that must be notarized. This is what happened to cases like these here. I’m not sure how other countries work. Today, I was tasked to represent for the application of the power services that were disconnected. Good thing, things went smoothly and after the compliance of documents and payment, re-connection team went ahead of me to the building and reconnected the power supply back. That was immediate and I was impressed but working on the documents to comply is not impressive at all.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
13 Nov 19
Nope, that hopefully will never happen.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
13 Nov 19
I think this rarely happens especially if we are mindful with our obligations.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Nov 19
That has not nor will ever happen to me.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
13 Nov 19
A thumbs up!. It's not going to happen if one is responsible with those dealings.
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@lillywriter (1143)
• Lithuania
13 Nov 19
No, I never miss paying any bills.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
14 Nov 19
Good to hear about that.
@haraka (1282)
• Indonesia
13 Nov 19
I never have such experience, because I always put the billing schedule on my phone and we can check our bill via internet by put our ID.
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
13 Nov 19
It's not really a problem if we will adopt a system on paying our bills. You are right. In the case of telephone and internet, if you registered your number on your account, you will received also a text message that your billing is on its way. That is good to hear.
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• Mexico
13 Nov 19
That has happened to me only with things like netflix and spotify
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@ZedSmart (19786)
• Philippines
13 Nov 19
I see. Not much hassle when you want to reconnect back I guess?
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• Mexico
13 Nov 19
@ZedSmart Yeah, I could wait for some months then get the service back for a while