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SteveW:
Also you need to send a copy of your driving license and a utility bill or similar no more than 3 months old with your name and address on.
Apart from the driving license copy, make sure all the other paperwork is original, they will not accept copies.

The slightest thing wrong they will reject it and you basically end up at the back of the queue again. Even though they ask for your contact details in case of a problem, they will not contact you.

And send it all recorded delivery.

The hardest bit I found was trying to find a cheque book to pay the £55.

MCTID:
Some time ago I sent an important letter to the DVLA - Recorded Post. You won't believe me that it was delivered to my House the next day.......some zombie in the PO Sorting Office had read my 'Return address' on the back of the envelope and another PO zombie delivered it.

I had a moan at my local Postwoman and said I couldn't believe that anyone could be so stupid......she just rolled her eyes and said "With some of the people in our PO Sorting Office....I certainly can believe it" ! She said if I had anything 'important' such as original Vehicle documents it was vital to send them to the DVLA by REGISTERED POST. Recorded Delivery Post just means that you had some confirmation that it had been delivered but Registered Post meant that the PO could tell you the time and date when it was delivered and who signed for it.

Like many other Government Departments, many people working in the DVLA are just Agency workers who may or may not be there next week so they don't get much training, and the Procedures used by many Government Departments are so overly complicated and bureaucratic, that even seasoned personnel don't actually know what to do when something out of the ordinary lands on their desk.....hence long delays in processing time.

Better safe than sorry in my view !

Laverda Dave:
Here's a potential reason why things are so slow at the DVLA!

https://youtu.be/PZZ8SqKcNwk

MCTID:
Back in 1988 I was a Quality Manager for a Blue Chip Commercial Vehicle Component Manufacturer in Runcorn when I went on a Seminar on Total Quality Management (TQM). It was a good days Training and I thoroughly enjoyed it.......although I remember giving my MD a Debrief after and saying that although I enjoyed it, he really was the one who should have attended....but it 'Wasn't for him' (his words),

One of the more interesting presentations was from a Senior Quality Manager from Natwest Bank, which had recently introduced a new type of Bank Account for existing Customers only. It really was a great deal and lots of people took it up. After a few weeks, local Natwest Bank Managers from all around the UK were regularly complaining to their Head Office that they were getting serious grief from some of their best and longstanding Customers, who Natwest was really pi*sing off because they had no response to their postal applications to participate in this wonderful new initiative.

After a lot of legwork, this Natwest Quality Manager tracked down the problem to the fact that 6 or 7 sackfuls of mail (Applications) were being delivered to the HQ of the Natwest Bank EVERY day, but the number of Employees assigned to process them was totally inadequate, so the old sacks of mail were being left at the back of the room gathering dust and they were only processing the latest Applications.....so the older Applications just went backwards - hence the complaints from some of their best Customers that 'If Natwest can't process my Applications in a timely manner, then maybe I need to find myself a more efficient Bank to look after my money and substantial investments'....so not only were Natwest missing out on the takeup of their new Bank Account, they were losing some of their oldest and most profitable Customers in droves.

Remember that this was back in 1988........and I could be a smartarse and say that surely the DVLA and all their highly paid (overpaid) Executives should have seen this coming, but as we are talking about the DVLA, it's hardly surprising really is it !

SteveW:
I was pretty amazed that my registration for my 650 that I posted in Feb took exactly 3 weeks.
From what everyone else was saying I was expecting 6 weeks absolute minimum.

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