Your Favourite Subject - Car Park Fine

[C.A.R.]

Received a letter in the post today for our family car having over-stayed our allotted time in a supermarket car park. Fair do's, I can't prove otherwise. The reason I'm miffed, is that it is claimed this is the 2nd letter they have sent and I'm being charged £70 rather than the 'lower fee' of £40 which they allegedly sent on a previous letter earlier in the month giving me 2 weeks to pay up.

I didn't receive that first letter in the post?

Can I contest it and ask to pay the lower fee?

The last time I got one of these was back in 2011 when it was advised to just ignore it, but I understand things have moved on since then?

Just about to go on holiday too, which doesn't help.

[C.A.R.]

Just to update this (as I'm aware of how many of these threads are left open-ended)

Wrote to the generic customer services email earlier today not expecting a response - but PCN has been waived.

It pays sometimes to just be very good at writing a letter!