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Default Wrong delivery address

On 11/15/2012 7:57 PM, Oren wrote:
...for fuel oil in Canada. House changing to Electric service.

"A home near Victoria had to be demolished after an oil company got
its addresses mixed up and delivered a load of furnace oil to the
wrong house."

"...I had disconnected the oil tank and was getting 200 amp service in
for electric heat," said Phillips.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/14/bc-oil-tank-saanich.html


Apparently, this is not a rare occurrence:

"Quite often we can dig under the house and support it with concrete.
Because of the way it is, and the underground oil tank here, we could
not support the house and save it."