Smallest Cheque I've Ever Received

A long time ago in Australia there was only one telecommunication company and that was Telecom Australia. Then came Optus and there was competition and soon there was more telephony companies joining the competition like Primus Telecom which is who I'm with at the moment and others.

So to make themselves more competitive Telecom Australia had a revamp of the whole organisation and changed their name to Telstra thinking that would be a cooler name and would appeal to customers more but needless to say that though they are still the biggest telecommunication company in the country their customer service is one to be desired. There's even a hate Telstra users club whereby disgruntled customers can vent their angers at the giant telecommunication company.

I've always been with Telstra simply because there was no reason to leave until nearly a year ago when Primus offered me a good deal to bundle my home phone with my broadband together and that's when I left Telstra. Now because we have to pay our line rentals in advance we had some unused money with Telstra. The amount was only minimal, $5.52 to be exact and do you think Telstra would reimburse us for it? No, Telstra just left the money in our account as a credit note! They were so sure that we will return to them in the future and will continue with our account with them again.

Well guess what? Telstra was right coz now I've decided to go back to Telstra only because I'm changing my internet service provider for adsl2 reason and the new provider requires my home phone line be a Telstra line instead of a Primus line. So I have to change back but dunno why and how, we have to start up a new account with Telstra now and they've decided to close the old account and refund our $5.52 after nearly a year sitting in the account doing nothing but earning interest for Telstra! I nearly fell over backward when I saw a cheque in the mail today from Telstra for $5.52 laughing out loud! This is the smallest amount on a cheque I've ever received.