Georgia Power

I am a Pooler, Georgia resident, and my Georgia Power Account Number is [protected]. On December 2nd, 2022, I received a Georgia Power (GP) bill that was due December 21st, 2022. On December 7th, 2022, I submitted an electronic check payment for the amount to GP and I received an email "Thank You for Your Payment" receipt on December 7th, 2022.
Surprisingly, December 14th, 2022, I received a reminder that my bill was due December 21st, 2022, the notice indicated that if the bill was paid, then I should ignore the reminder. A few days later, I checked my account to observe my payment and usage history and there was a $99.00 entry for the period I had paid for on December 7th, 2022. I then contacted the Savannah Office and had spoken to the Customer Service person, who said her name was Yowanda.

She politely explained that the routing number submitted to their system during the December 7th, 2022 payment was found to be incorrect during their process. She explained that the next bill will include the December payment, a $30.00 fee for the incorrect routing number, plus the cost for the next month's usage payment. I explained to her that their system did not flag any input errors for correction, instead, the transaction was accepted, and a receipt was issued. Therefore, I should not be charged for edit errors. She continued to explain that the bank returned the check because the routing number was incorrect. I requested a copy of what the bank returned, and she told me she couldn't do that. At that point, I requested to speak to a supervisor. Yowanda immediately transferred the call, of which no one answered.

I spent several minutes in an attempt to reach Yowanda again or anyone who would answer the phone, and no one answered. Eventually, I contacted a Supervisor from the Atlanta Office, and I was given the opportunity to leave a message. My call was returned by a person named Andrew, who left a message, but he did not leave a surname, which made it impossible for me to locate him. A few days later, I received a letter in the mail without a date or a signature informing me that the transaction was returned by the bank unpaid. And a $30.00 charge was added to my account along with a list of consequences that will be applied if not paid by December 20th, 2022.

I visited with my bank with the letter to inquire why the check was returned, and my bank assured me that they have no knowledge of any returned transaction or any interactions with Georgia Power that was associated with my accounts. My conclusion is, if there was an incorrect routing number, the error must have occurred during the input process, which should have been flagged by your system for correction during the input of the financial information, and before the transaction was submitted and accepted by Georgia Power.

Your prompt attention to this matter will be appreciated.

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How do they reach this god forsaken company to do anything at all? Do they
Have human beings working or are they collecting a check and doing nothing productive while the us economy crashes and we become a communist country?