{"id":103291,"date":"2015-10-29T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103291\/thanks-for-the-friendly-service\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:38:08","slug":"thanks-for-the-friendly-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/10\/29\/thanks-for-the-friendly-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the friendly service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adele and Greg Gray, Germiston, write:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to accounts and Ekurhuleni, it is the thing you dread the most.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>But for my husband and I on October 28, it was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>We were greeted by a smiling and friendly woman (my mistake I did not get her name) at information.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>She assessed our situation and quickly pointed us in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very special thank you to the friendly woman at the information counter and the billing department at the Ekurhuleni offices in Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>To Mamohau (which means \u201cmercy\u201d in Sotho) and Lynette in the billing department, you are our angels sent from heaven.<\/p>\n<p>You took your time to explain and sort out our account queries.<\/p>\n<p>You finished the task at hand with professionalism and friendliness.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping us and taking the time to explain to us while we were so stressed.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t stress how thankful we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other letters you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100472\/resident-charged-over-r100-000-for-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resident charged over R100 000 for leak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97130\/germiston-cbd-through-the-eyes-of-a-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston CBD through the eyes of a child<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='026e3b22071dd835fce07214e1284a9f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasant surprise at municipal offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":103365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[1003,979,969,1850,1208,2734,1002,1004,1167,3873],"class_list":["post-103291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion-edition","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-help","tag-letter","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-opinion-2","tag-thanks"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Letters"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","help","letter","melissa hart","metro","municipality","opinion","thanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}