"Guy King" wrote in message
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from Matt contains these words:

Of course you can. Meter readers DO make mistakes.

So do some meters. A friend moved into a new house with a card meter
installed. The meter was showing a debit of something like £5000.

Yes, that will be the meter deducting the standing charge from the balance
over time even when it's not being credited. Something similar happened to
us, except the amount was something like £200 in the red. After checking
with the supplier, the ticket sales agent was authorised to let us have £200
in vouchers to reset the balance back to zero, although he didn't have that
many on him right away. We had to call back and he had them for us for the
date we moved in. When I was younger it was so much fun feeding all those £1
vouchers into the meter. Doesn't seem like it would be so much fun now.

Marcus