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[Mike Sokol]

While dropping off some postcards at the local Post Office this morning, my alert wife spotted an outside service panel with a missing cover. Looks live to me, and easily accessible to anyone walking through the open parking lot. Yikes!!! I placed a call to the local power authority and left a message detailing where this is located, but since it's a holiday weekend I'm not holding my breath that it will be fixed on Monday morning.

[Stephen Swaffer]

I'm pretty sure that is a meter socket for use with CTs-still could have energized wires to it.

About a year ago,I noticed an empty meter socket on a pole and called a local contact at the POCO.  Turns out the CATV provider was demoing some gear around town and the meter sockets had been disconnected.  Seems to me to be a bad idea to get in that habit-eventually people will see that as business as usual and assume it is safe.

[Mike Sokol]

I'm pretty sure that is a meter socket for use with CTs-still could have energized wires to it.\

Yeah, there's wiring going into it directly from above on the pole, so there could indeed be energized conductors.  It does seem like a bad idea to have an open electrical box on Post Office properly energized or not. If they pulled the meter why didn't they just put a block plate in the hole?

[Stephen Swaffer]

On a CT metered service, pulling the meter alone does not disable service-they would actually have to disconnect power some other way.  I am guessing they figured it was de-energized so why bother?  Still wouldn't stick my bare hand in there without doing some testing myself, though.

[Rob Spence]

The post office is not the example of following good practice (or sometimes the rules).


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