Not got your road tax reminder?
Not got your road tax reminder?
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BliarOut

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72,863 posts

269 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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The DVLA seem to be saying 60,000 of the reminders got "lost in the post" this month

Now the only common point for these items of mail are going to be from the DVLA to the nearest sorting office so it seems pretty unlikely. The GF and I think they simply screwed the computer run up for June and it didn't complete.

If you're even remotely interested, what letter does your surname begin with and did you get a reminder?

Me & the GF are both B and we both got one but we think anyone later in the alphabet didn't.


Oh, and this might act as a reminder to anyone who was relying on a reminder and hasn't had one yet.

Denis O

2,141 posts

273 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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On the assumption you are talking about May, my better half got hers and our surname begins with "O"

Another DVLA conspiricy theory nites the dust........well 1 anyway.

BliarOut

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72,863 posts

269 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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One reminder won't kill off my conspiracy theory just yet

Just seems very convenient (And more than a little unbelievable) to "lose" 60,000 envelopes between the DVLA and the local sorting office.

jasandjules

72,622 posts

259 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Odd that they can lose them.. Still, the onus is on us to get the car taxed...

esselte

14,626 posts

297 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Mine begins with "C" and I got my reminder that the tax ran out on the 31st May.

Flat in Fifth

48,866 posts

281 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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I'm with Bliarout on this.

How do ou know how many got lost in the post? You only know somethings got lost because the recipient who is expecting it rings up and say "Oi git!" or something to that effect.

So are they saying that 60,000 people have rung up, in which case the true number lost is really .....

Or is the Post Office saying that they have lost X bags of mail which contained 60,000 reminders .....

Don't forget that on the back of the reminder is the text which says to the effect "if this is delivered incorrectly ffs don't tell us as we don't want to know being the incompetent Welsh muppets ( TM Anne Robinson) that we are.....

And of the alleged 60,000 who failed to get reminders bet they don't screw up sending out any of the £80 love letters going out in two months.

and breathe....

FiF

Edited by Flat in Fifth on Monday 5th June 15:38

BliarOut

Original Poster:

72,863 posts

269 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Thanks FiF

Just strikes me as odd that 60,000 items can go "missing in the post", it's just too convenient. What else went missing at the same time? I have a naturally suspicious nature.

The only place they could all have been lost is between the DVLA and the sorting office. Once they are there they will be routed to different destinations so they couldn't all get lost at any point after that.

Mind you, the speed those red lorries go at I suppose one could have inadvertently entered a time warp!

esselte

14,626 posts

297 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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BliarOut said:
Thanks FiF

Just strikes me as odd that 60,000 items can go "missing in the post", it's just too convenient. What else went missing at the same time? I have a naturally suspicious nature.

The only place they could all have been lost is between the DVLA and the sorting office. Once they are there they will be routed to different destinations so they couldn't all get lost at any point after that.

Mind you, the speed those red lorries go at I suppose one could have inadvertently entered a time warp!


I'm with FiF here,how could the dvla know that something they had posted had gone missing?I suspect the DVLA has cocked up.

Dwight Vandriver

6,583 posts

274 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Is this to cover up the fact they made a bloop with the amount to pay due to budget changes?????

dvd

BliarOut

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72,863 posts

269 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Not sure of the reasons but apparently it caused aboslute chaos in the Co-op, they were queueing right back to the doors. Now if they employed a few more staff etc...
[/RantingOldBiddieMode]

Apparently the DVLA are still telling people to fill in a V10, but the Post Office can't tax your car on a V10 as they have gone over to the new DVLA bar-coding system which uses your new style V5C. They had to send a few people away as they didn't have the new style V5C's and you can only tax your car on an old V5 if you go to your local DVLA offices.

It's bloomin handy having an insider at times

cwk

213 posts

296 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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For what it's worth, my wife's reminder still hasn't arrived. She renewed hers at the end of May by filling in the form thingy at the local post office. Surname begins with K...
Charles

malman

2,258 posts

289 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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I got mine and I'm an M.

mach1

121 posts

313 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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I didn't, surname's an A.

Just lucky that I noticed it while washing the car yesterday....

SJobson

13,869 posts

294 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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My wife didn't get hers in April, surname beginning with J. Fortunately I noticed and taxed her car in time.

xxplod

2,269 posts

274 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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I got mine OK.

ali_kat

32,155 posts

251 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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I didn't get mine - and I'm a B

paddy27

1,745 posts

264 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Got mine ok last month, letter L

Paddy

Beggarall

591 posts

271 months

Monday 5th June 2006
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Didn't get mine - surname T - did it online - worked fine!
Poetic!

tubbinthug

206 posts

275 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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Most likely they print them sorted by postcode, so as to reduce postal charges. Anyone want to do it by postcode (first bit only)

sjtscott

4,215 posts

261 months

Tuesday 6th June 2006
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Received two (bike+car) in mid may for 31st May expiry.. surname suprisingly begins with S.