"Kate" wrote in message
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Oh AND, they ran the trench at no cost...
I posted this once before, but it seems to have gotten lost.

Sorry if it doubles up later on

All these stories of free or deeply-discounted replacement service drop
installs / switches to buried service, don't surprise me a bit. It is real
cheap insurance for them, as long as they don't have to set a new pole, pad,
or transformer. A lot easier to change it out on a balmy summer day, than at
0200 on a minus-30 January morning. Plus, of course, every home owner whose
power stays ON during nasty weather, is one less homeowner writing ****y
letters to the state utilities people.

aem sends...