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Bryanj:
14 weeks to send a new V5C then 9 days later they are sending a threatening letter saying tax it or sorn it!!

Bloody govinment beurocratic twaddle

Nurse Julie:
Just do one or the other Bryan, you don't want a £1000 fine.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):

--- Quote from: Bryanj on September 27, 2021, 08:31:43 PM ---14 weeks to send a new V5C then 9 days later they are sending a threatening letter saying tax it or sorn it!!

Bloody govinment beurocratic twaddle

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It's down to the DVLA computer systems they are quite old and as government legislation has changed through the decades the system is creaking under the strain from a lifetime of changes to the systems - including closing the regional LVLO  offices & handing a lot of what they did to Post Offices - even new car dealers input their data directly to DVLA systems to register a new car - the original  New Car Dealer V55 paper documents issued by the manufactureres are rarely used except for small low volume dealerships.

I recently changed from BT back to VM for my phone, TV & broadband - BT sent me a returns envelope and I returned all the kit within 2 days of being out of contract - I had an e-mail confirming the return of the equipment a week later - I have since had at least 6 texts & e-mails threatening to charge me for the unreturned kit.

Today I went through the BT complaints system to resolve the issue before they tried to bill me.

Every time I renew my Driving Licence I photcopy the old one to make sure they do not take my M/C licence off me. I have kept my old Derbyshire Red D/L showing my original group D entitlement I think it is. If they make an error you can end up having to re-take your test if you can't provide the original test pass details that were  stored on Microfish decades ago in the DVLA archives in basements in Wales somewhere.

Bryanj:
I agree Ted, its just the idiocy of 14 weeks for the V5 which you have to have in your hand for the number then less than 2 before the threat, i wounder if the defence of i am asefficient as them would hold up.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):

--- Quote from: Bryanj on September 27, 2021, 11:21:21 PM ---I agree Ted, its just the idiocy of 14 weeks for the V5 which you have to have in your hand for the number then less than 2 before the threat, i wounder if the defence of i am asefficient as them would hold up.

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Just as an aside there was a documentary on the DVLA site a couple of decades ago - the post room was supposedly so large it had more than one postcode it was vast - I guess now with online progress the old post room is full of servers. It would be interesting to know how many folk work there today.

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