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RANT! How to tax your vehicle

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Wolfie:
Simple really, you get the reminder in the post, you go to the post office with the necessary documents and payment and they give you a nice shiny disc.

Well NO, that relies on the post office employing people that are competent.

How it really goes is:

Get reminder in the post, go to post office in good time and get disc.
Go to put disc in car, and notice that the incompetent at the post office has managed to put an 8 in the registration number rather than a 4. (Well I suppose they look similar  :roll: )
Drive 15 miles back to the post office, stand in the long queue for ages, (it now being the last working day before the end of the month so the world and his wife are queueing to get a tax disc).
Eventually get to the counter, the next idiot then scribbles on the incorrect disc and writes out a new one - SORTED? well no.
The idiot then tries to change the record on the DVLA computer - the tax disc for the car now has a different number to the one that is on record. THE COMPUTER SAYS NO!
Idiot then phones the helpline, queue in post office now out of the door, customers starting to moan!
Helpline can't! but will phone back. Suggest to idiot that they put my paperwork aside until return call and serve irritated customers.
Eventually the phone rings, the post office can't make the change, so I now have to go to the "local" VRO to get it done.
Of course it's too late today to go to Northampton, (slightly further than Birmingham but probably easier to get to).
So I now have a spoiled and invalid tax disc, and can't get it sorted until Tuesday at the earliest. As I don't have a valid tax disc I can't use the car after the end of the month.

And they wonder why people avoid paying their car tax!

TO BE CONTINUED.......... (as no doubt there will be further incompetence at the VRO)

Wolfie

Eeyore:
And another fine case of blundering numbskullery, brought to you by British Bureaucracy Ltd  :roll:

Oh well, like we needed to drive the car next week anyway.

Nithering dipsters.....

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

strapping young lad:
sod that for a laugh

i renew online (i presume you are talking about the tax disc)

got it in the post 2 days later

job done

Wolfie:

--- Quote from: "strapping young lad" ---i renew online (i presume you are talking about the tax disc)
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That's ok, if you have a computerized MOT certificate, I don't, and it seems that it's not too easy to get one. Another great goverment computer installation.

Regards

Wolfie

strapping young lad:
ah yeh of course

from what i read all are going computerised so that will help no end

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