Mystery tool in my backyard

“Here“ would be where exactly? :smile:

Anyway, this sounds quite sensible to me. I wonder why it wasn’t done that way over here, too. Instead, for decades meter readers had to walk from house to house and ask to see the meters. (These days they just leave reminders to phone in the meter or to send it via internet. Or to collect the reminders, which people can fill out and put on their doors.