Last June, 2007 our own transformer which has been there since about  1989 and servicing our own compound (group of houses under our name) has been taken down by Meralco.  It has been there when the town was still serviced by the Electric Cooperative and was still functioning for years even after Meralco took over. We were manufacturing something then, and we needed the transformer, so my now deceased father bought one..

There has been a short-circuit or something late 2006 or early 2007 and the Meralco people transferred our connections to the community transformer; hence they took the old transformer down later.  I immediately filed a claim to Meralco, citing that the unit is ours, and they had no right to take it. 

Now, they are asking us to produce the receipt??? for the old transformer bought in 1989 and prove that we own it.  Where has logic gone?  For years, we have been paying our bills, and we -- only we -- are connected to this sole very old transformer. Do they mean to say, that out of the goodness of the heart of the cooperative and later on of Meralco, their COMPANY provided us an expensive transformer (they were expensive in the 1980s) for our own PERSONAL USE?   

This illustrates what's happening to us.  We do not think logically anymore.  We twist and turn circumstances for our own benefit.  We have to prove that we own the transformer serving our household? It might be out on the Meralco post but the wires all lead to our house.   Excuse me !!!

For all I know, the transformer has been sold per kilo; and Meralco isn't really doing anything about their crooks within.  This is a small matter; but we should show concern about little things like these; before it grows into things unmanageable.

How many times have we heard that a certain locale suddently experienced brownout, only to find out that some crooks cut away the wires in the middle of the night to sell per kilo?  Then it is the hapless hosueowners have to pool their resources for electricity to get restored.  Who could be doing the cutting of live wires but electricians themselves?

EWAN !

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