How is your gas and electric meter read?

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I know some power companies have computerized access and some still have a meter person come out. Our electric company is Baltimore Gas & Ripoff, oops, I mean Electric; and they still use a meter person. I can remember as a teen in the 1970's the meter man would come by and say "meter man" and we would let him in the house. Our meter was in the utility room. In my current house, the meter is in our backyard, behind a locked fence. I try to remember to prop open the gate if I am not home, but the past two months I have been home and have received estimated bills because the meter person didn't make any attempt to announce himself. It was very clear that we were home because he had to walk in between two cars to get to the gate to see if was closed. How hard would it have been for him to yell "meter man"? BGE has plans, who knows when, that they can read the meters via technology. I wish they would take the 80% hike increase they slapped on us, and put that money to getting this job done quicker.