Got a letter today from our calor gas supplier saying that they are going paperless. No doubt saving half the Amazon rain forest. When we next receive a tank refill the delivery man will no longer put a delivery note through the letter box. It will also lead to efficiency savings which will probably count towards the £300 saving by 2030, that Ed Elasticband promised everyone.
If we still want a delivery notification, all we need to do is send them an email address so they can do it online. Simple.
Just three easy steps :-
- Send them your account number which is on your statement, although it it is not on the letter they sent you😈 So I go look for a statement. It’s 14 digits long with a lot of zeros and it is different to the last statement? Still I gave it a try.
- Next add the delivery point, which might be called the customer address and it is on the letter they sent or the last delivery note. Are we clear? It is only 8 digits and no zeros.
- Finally add your email address.
I did all that and the form would not “submit”. Evidently I had got my account numbers mixed up; or my delivery point should have been my delivery address; or maybe I had put in too many zeros.
But I wasn’t going to submit either! This calor gas improvement in customer service wasn’t going to beat me. I had a few more goes, juggled with the combinations of delivery notes, addresses, customer numbers and assorted zeros. Eventually, like a Chinese hacker, I managed to break through. I might have a go at breaking into the Bank of England next. Only kidding🤡
As Mick Jagger would say — “ It’s all right now, in fact it’s a gas”
GrumbleSmiles 
ooh ahh! the web, and emails and adressed letters messages sent to on,asking for confirmation, name address and maybe bank details. I trust the contact number for delivery was confirmed and they confirded to one by pasword etc whom they were? and not a scam?
tHE MODERN WORLD OF COMMENERCE ON THE WEB, IS NOT THE SAME AS A VISIT TO A LOCAL BRANCH, AND READING THE RECEPTIONIST EYES AS THEY INTERIGATE ONE, ABOUT THE MATTER BEING DISCUSED.
AS one says it is all gas, so long one is not sent up in flames!!!
this weekend WE are tracing our old family roots, and relations in the area where we were children. I remember the ‘GASWORKS’and the wonderful orders and smells emitting from the plant/works. It was not qite a GAS but then one of the by products was coke, that smokeless fuel and high carbon heating value one could buy to fuel our lounge open fire. and in the winter the dinning room fire. No cental heating system, all open fires and the gas for the kitchen stove. All services depending upon the local gas works-Quite a GAS?????
Today central heating and electictricy services have change the word meaning ‘GAS’ into one of a verbal contest.