Origin deem this necessary due to the cost of posting them out.

What a load of rubbish!

My advice to anyone that uses an organisation that invokes something of that nature, as Origin have, is to do exactly what I did some time ago - get rid of them!

There are many better choices of suppliers out there than that mob.

They are organisations that don't spend all their time at executive level just trying to find ways to gouge more fees and charges out of their clients and actually do listen to their customers.

My experience is Origin are about the bottom of the barrel when it comes to customer service.

A recent example I endured was the arrival of a dreaded "red letter" where I was a few days late paying a bill, even though it was a relatively isolated event.

The letter started off well with: "Origin recognises that it is easy to overlook an account and we appreciate that", then a couple of paragraphs later it stated "please be advised that a $11 late fee will be automatically applied on our next bill".

What a complete contradiction. 

They understand that oversights can occur, however it does not stop them belting you with a "fine".

The only reason that the likes of Origin get away with this type of behaviour is that not enough people take them on.

Demand better.

If you look at the name on the letter you receive about a late bill or intention to charge you for posting out your bill, see how you go actually being able to talk with that faceless person.

I tried everything to get in touch with the name on the bottom of my red letter.  

No hope.

These faceless jetsetters are on a squillion dollars a year simply because they come up with a new fee or charge plan.

Shop around, demand better, sooner or later you will get better.

Better is out there, you just have to force their hand through the power of the people.

MARK Latham hits the nail right on the head with his article “Preaching communism” in The Daily Telegraph on April 12.

Why do we allow adults to teach toddlers and children about sex and cross-dressing?

Where is the outrage?

Condemn it and you're discriminating, when you're merely disapproving.

Discipline in classrooms has vanished because it is now “child abuse”' to touch anyone, but sex talk isn't.

The children leave school, all sexed up, many teenagers already mothers of aborted offspring, and then they hit the real world of discrimination.

Most fail miserably, leading to depression, drug abuse, suicide and crime.

Why do the kids I coach call me racist when I organise a small tennis challenge between students of different ethnic backgrounds?

If I were to ever talk about sex or cross-dressing during any of my classes, I would be labelled a paedophile and never work with children again.

But it's fine in our classrooms?

Maybe it is due to the fact that over 80 per cent of adult teachers are women, not men.

It's supposedly a “high risk job” that males do not want to risk for fear of being jailed for the slightest hint of anything offensive.

As Mr Latham so rightly stated, people can no longer speak the truth about their beliefs or the things they see around them for fear of upsetting the feelings of minority groups.

Propaganda is a weapon and we are all getting murdered by it.