>> I then forgot it until quite a bit later, but ultimately retrieved it expecting a
>> missive from the DVLA (since the postcode was SA99 1DU - and I have a
>> minor query outstanding with them).
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>> Turns out it was a "local" vaccination reminder (from the Notts CCG, not NHS national).
DVLA was known in other government departments for having one of the largest automated mailroom operations in Europe. A former colleague of mine involved setting up a similar, albeit much smaller, operation in her department spent some time there seeing how it worked.
Her interest was the incoming side where mail was opened and scanned but the outgoing side was pretty big too.
Whether it's now contracted or still in house it has the facility to envelope and dispatch tens of thousands of items in a standard format every day at low cost. Using it for covid letters would be an excellent example of cross government co-operation.
The issue of their being insufficient staff on site to process and decide on (eg) vocational licences is completely separate to the small number of folks in mailroom grades needed to supervise machinery.
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