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Aw crap, what are they playing at? We found the following unsigned letter with quasi-legal wording in the letterbox today:

  16th May 2007

  Owner
  XX XXXXXX XXX
  Oakleigh Vic 3166

  The Residents
  XX XXXXXX XXX
  Oakleigh Vic 3166

  Dear Sir/Madam

  It has come to our attention, that you have a Telecommunication wire, trespassing
  across our property. As we have never given you permission for this to happen, we
  want it removed.

  We noticed that you already have a pole outside your house, which would be more
  suitable for that wire to be attached to.

  We will therefore give you seven (7) days from the date of this letter to remove it
  from its orginal site and have it re-attached to the other pole. If that has not taken
  place by the expiration of the deadline, then we will be removing it ourselves and any
  cost that is born as a result, will naturally be passed on to you, so it will be in your
  best interest, to act promptly.

  We thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation in this matter.

  Your faithfully

  OWNERS

The cable they're talking about is the Telstra phone cable, it has quite possibly been there for forty years! I was fairly sure that there's nothing wrong with it, but rang up Telstra anyway to check.

It caused a bit of fun and games with the enquiries line, not your routine query it seems!

Yep, the Telstra cable is Telstra infrastructure, and in a magnificent quote “The infrastructure can go where it wants.” Any "issues" that they have with it are between them and Telstra and they should contact Telstra about it.

The cable can be relocated if they wish, however the costs will be born by them, not by us and not by Telstra.

Of course, none of this could possibly have anything to do with the fact that we keep asking the building company to come and finish fixing the fence that they half took down months ago, now could it...?