A TransAlta botch-up has stung thousands of
Christchurch direct-debit customers and wrongly
delivered the cash from their prompt-payment
discounts to the power company's account.

TransAlta has admitted that a batch of direct-debit
payments for November 9 in Auckland, Wellington, and
Christchurch "defaulted" because of a computer
problem and were not processed until four days later.

STUFF

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 29, 2000