On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:38:24 -0000, Paul Day wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:04:45 virgmob007@netscape.net may have written:
>> If other people think they have their Telstra troubles, then they will
>> be interested in my problem. What Telstra did was allow someone to
>> set up an apparently fixed telephone account, and have the bill sent
>> to my personal address. At first I did not open the Telstra
> <snip>
>
> It sounds like you're caring more than you need to. If the name on the
> envelope isn't yours, you shouldn't be openning it, let alone wasting
> your time caring about it. Debt is owned by a person, not by an address.
> Just keep RTSing them.
>
> Now if Telstra somehow managed to terminate _your_ service with them
> because of it, I'd be kicking up a stink.
>
> I do agree re: openning an account with an incorrect address. Don't
> Telstra need two pieces of ID, one showing (what is likely to be) your
> current address (eg, recent bill from another utility, current driver's
> license), before you can open a telephone account?

I'm all but certain you can nominate any *billing* address you like. If
I'm wrong, I'm sure Monsieur Michael J. Ellis will correct me. (And I know
I've personally never provided Telstra with anything other than a telephone
call to connect a home phone.)

In any case, if Telstraa wants to, it wouldn't have too much trouble
tracking down the mystery subscriber's real addresss. After all, it was a
fixed line service.

Of course, they won't trouble themselves doing that, and, unless the amount
owing is considerable, Telstra's more likely to "sell" the debt to any
mercantile agent silly enough to buy it.

If the OP (Carson? Cartsten?) starts getting debt collectors repeatedly
knocking on his door looking for the disappering debtor, then he'd have
cause for complaint.