In article , RobertPatrick wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in
om:

Power company came out today and replaced the old mechanical meter
with the new fancy-schmancy one.

Chatting up the meter-man, I learned:

1. The old meters are going to be junked. Not sold to Mexico or
Lithuania like the 'phone company did with their mechanical central
office stuff. We're talking, oh, one million meters in a city of 5.5
million. That's a pretty big pile.

2. His quota is 60-100 meters swapped out per day.

3. One purpose is to allow the meter to be read from the street.

4. It is alleged I can check my meter on the 'net. We'll see.

My local company changed mine about 5 years ago. It's great. They don't
bother me to come in the house anymore. Same with the gas meter.

Your electric and gas meters were inside the house? Yeah,
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....