Our local village post office is now issuing VED disks. Is this a new national trend or a one off.
Vastly easier to get to than trying to get to a city center one at lunchtime.
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I couldn't say if it's a national trend or not as our local PO has been doing them for years and yes, the queues are far shorter. Especially since they amalgamated the three town-centre POs into one to "provide a better customer service experience"!
I think all village POs are attempting to provide whatever services they can to ensure their own viability. I therefore try and support them by getting what I can there, including VED, foreign currency, etc, on the 'use it or lose it' basis.
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2 years ago I tried to do it at my village post office (nowhere near that Forester), and they couldn't. They weren't allowed to by DVLA. Had to go 5 miles to next village. Wished I'd queued in London instead!
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I have raised this with DVLA.
Policy is not to allow licence work at post offices that are close to a larger one. Thus, when I lived in Bicester we had to go to the central PO and could not go to the smaller one down the road. Of course, the central one always had a min 40 minute wait (I measured it) as they did EVERYTHING for the whole of Bicester. The small office usually had no queue so you could walk straight to the window. Of course, having walked straight there you were told that you had to go the the main PO.
Amusingly, Bicester is often congested and is short of parking. No-one seems to have thought of offering better out-of-town services.
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>>Thus, when I lived in Bicester
Strange. I taxed one of our cars a few weeks ago at the Post Office in Ambrosden - which is, I suspect, all of about 1 mile from Bicester Post Office
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Ambrosden is deemed far enough away. The one which refused me was in the row of shops off Churchill Road. I'd only just moved there & didn't know where Ambrosden was then....
Apparently it's not cost-effective to allow more than one in the same town do issue tax discs.
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Do you still live in Bicester ?
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Which PO office is that Martin out of interest? Just wondered how small they had gone. It only used to be main POs.
Fullchat
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It's Leconfield. I'd consider it as being small, no street parking, although it has space for maybe three cars in front. Restricted PO hours as it's a counter within a shop. I guess normal PO business has dropped a lot since pensions and the like increasingly going direct to bank accounts.
Martin
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Our local PO also does this and ithas two other POs either side of it each 3 miles away who also issue disks.
I remember the old days where you used to be able to do this by post direct to DVLA at the same time as you sent off your logbook. My first car - Mini 850 was done this way - oh happy days!
The PO keep all the forms you need as well.
H
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it's like being in the dark ages having to trudge down to the post office every six months or a year, bits of paper in hand to get the tax disc. I'm holding my breath for the day that we can do this transaction via direct debit or on the internet but i fear it will be a long time.
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The counter clerk must see and check you have the relevant documents, you couldn't do that by DD.
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The counter clerk must see and check you have the relevant documents, you couldn't do that by DD.
You could if the much-vaunted computerisation of MOT records ever came to fruition. Everything else can be confirmed directly with a central database now. Big Brother isn't just watching, he's holding your hand and dragging you into the dark places.
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