MANY of Feedback’s UK readers, it transpires, have their electricity supplied by Southern Electric – and,not being ones to miss a trick, they have been quick to email us about a claim in the company’s recent customer service leaflet. Here, under the headline “Work wonders in a weekend”, customers are advised: “Unplug your mobile phone charger. These little black boxes suck 100 kilowatt-hours a day from your socket, even when your phone is fully charged.”
This, Kate Mount points out, means that mobile phone chargers belonging to Southern Electric customers must be rated at over…
