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Post Office gets a 7 year extension to 2020 for Car Tax Renewals
On-line is more convenient for many but on the odd occasion the PO can be handy.
i.e. My Car Ins runs out 28th Feb, RFL due 1st March and although my Insurance is renewed mid February the car shows as being uninsured up until the 1st March comes around.
Sight of Insurance Cert in PO is needed as proof of cover
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>> On-line is more convenient for many but on the odd occasion the PO can be
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Use it or lose it.
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>>>Use it or lose it.
Indeed... I'm cycling across the village to ours in a moment. Support their shop side too as much as possible... I assume it all helps their viability.
Last edited by: Fenlander on Tue 13 Nov 12 at 12:17
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Cycling? Wow, careful, try not to upset too many people !
:-)
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What with respectful but assertive riding, excellent road placement, heightened awareness plus the power to get me out of trouble.... and no lycra. They'll all be fine with it.
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On-line is more convenient for many but on the odd occasion the PO can be
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Apart from accepting parcels I don't think there is anything the PO provides that you can't get anywhere else. My Post Office now has a self service machine for weighing letters and parcels and paying for postage so the day of the manned post office are clearly numbered. Bit of an anachronism really like telephone boxes
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>> Sight of Insurance Cert in PO is needed as proof of cover
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Not when I last renewed at a PO. They said they didn't go by the paper cert, they needed to confirm it on-line.
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>> Not when I last renewed at a PO. They said they didn't go by the
>> paper cert, they needed to confirm it on-line.
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My Ins Cert had start date 1st March, I was renewing 4/5 days before the end of February. The PO system only shows the finish date of a policy not the start date of the new policy year.
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We would love to use our local village PO but have tried in vain and given up.
The chappie behind the counter sits on a stool watching DVD's all day and refuses to get off for anything. If you interrupt his viewing he makes it clear he resents it and asking for anything other than a stamp is met with grunts and sighs. Prepaid postage parcels, is the postage has been bought online, are a step too far for him.
We now travel three miles to the next village where a delightfully cheerful local PO is run by an Asian family who are always pleased to see us and now know us by name.
Customer service with a smile.
Pat
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>> On-line is more convenient for many but on the odd occasion the PO can be
>> handy.
There's more to carrying out transactions than convenience. I'd much sooner deal with a human being than with an impersonal machine. If I want any cash I always go into the bank rather than using the ATM outside.
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>>There's more to carrying out transactions than convenience. I'd much sooner deal with a human being than with an impersonal machine. If I want any cash I always go into the bank rather than using the ATM outside.<<
+1
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So if you two had needed cash when I did last night, you'd still be outside the bank nine hours later, with another hour to wait till opening time.
And it's VED, not RFL. If you think that doesn't matter, count the bleats in these pages and elsewhere about the money it raises not being spent on roads. Once you understand it's a duty, not a subscription, the bleats can cease. Beer duty isn't reserved for providing bins to puke in.
Incidentally, insurers will cover for periods of less than a year if you ask them. When I first had to insure the Volvo for myself, there was a claim just inside the three-year window. My insurer (can't remember now who it was) suggested a ten-month policy to set my renewal date where the claim would have minimal effect. FB could do that and remove the obstacle to paying VED online - which, for all the value of local POs, is the only sensible way to do it.
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>> So if you two had needed cash when I did last night, you'd still be
>> outside the bank nine hours later, ..........
Nope. I'd get "cashback" from the local supermarket.
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>> And it's VED, not RFL.
What's good enough for Oxford Dictionaries is good enough for me. oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/road%2Bfund%2Blicence
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>> Beer duty isn't
>> reserved for providing bins to puke in.
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It used to pay for the defence budget - "The Royal Navy floats on beer" was the slogan.
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>> So if you two had needed cash when I did last night, you'd still be
>> outside the bank nine hours later, with another hour to wait till opening time.
'We two' am proper organised. Anyway, who uses cash these days?
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I do use my local PO for some things, e.g sending parcels or receiving them if I missed a delivery.
However I have always done the car tax online. It takes seconds where as going to my local PO it would take at least half an hour by the time I have walked there and back, suffered the smelly pensioners [some do stink, but most do not!].
Pat you should complain about that idiot in your local post office, with the jobless rate high as it is, people like that don't deserve a job. However I suspect he is probably a family member of the owners.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Wed 14 Nov 12 at 13:08
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He is the owner Rattle:)
We're not the only villagers to vote with our feet though.
Pat
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>> I do use my local PO for some things, e.g sending parcels
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There's no need to queue though. Print off the postage label online and then just pop the parcel through the hatch.
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Now that really get's up our local PO owners nose:)
Pat
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The problem with that is you need decent scales, I don't have any.
Pat I can't believe an owner of a business can be so rude, but I have stopped using a local business too for the same reason. A laptop screen supplier, the last few times I went in I didn't get a please or thank you so just get them online now. I don't see the point on expensive shop signs and advertising if you're just going to be so rude to customers.
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>>suffered the smelly pensioners [some do stink, but most do not].
You might be a smelly pensioner yourself one day, Rattle. If you're lucky.
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>> >>suffered the smelly pensioners [some do stink, but most do not].
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Or even worse suffer smelly smokers :-(
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>> >> >>suffered the smelly pensioners [some do stink, but most do not].
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OI.
I wash weekly...
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>>>Prepaid postage parcels, is the postage has been bought online, are a step too far for him.
We had that Pat with the previous keeper of our old Fen village PO/Shop. He would say there was nothing in it for him yet he still had to handle and process the parcel. Never seemed to appreciate I would buy a book of stamps, paper, drink, crisps and a roll while I was there.
Funnily enough he "lost" quite a lot of PO money and had the PO franchise taken out of his name and so sold up the whole concern. New people got the PO back and have been brilliant.
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It's annoying, isn't it Fenlander. You really would think they would appreciate the captive audience they have in those who can't get out of the village and be more appreciative of all custom.
Pat
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Our local PO closed when the shop it was in went bust. B&M who took over the shop lease did not want the PO so we - a town of c 20,000 - went without a PO for about 9 months (?) .
It's now in a portacabin behind the town hall.
Did I miss it? No.
But I imagine those who rely on public transport and have no bank account might.
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>> You might be a smelly pensioner yourself one day, Rattle. If you're lucky.
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Only if he moderates his alcohol intake.
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Clearly people on here haven't been on the bus for a long time. You do sometimes get the odd pensioner who clearly is not aware how much they need a wash. I don't even drink that much, I don't know why I have a reputation on here for drinking heavily! Yes I like to go out at weekend but during the week I don't touch the stuff.
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Smelly pensioner?
Often it is the clothes rather than the person that smells but in the end it does not really matter.......travel by car and use the internet for shopping
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You can still queue @ PO for your RFL, until 2020 - L'escargot
