By the way I agree with Peter most of that ugliness is from the vinyl guys.
The first guy I worked for had a deal with a couple of siding crews to handle rehanging the services.
They would pry the meter, cable and weather head of the wall and let all of it hang from the splices at the top.
Even the old cloth covered SE seemed to handle this abuse even though it scared the heck out of me to get near it.
