My car due for tax renewal in Jan/08, received renewal with invitation to renew on line
I tried it, so easy with no insuance docs to show and received tax disc in three days! David

Yes it's very good - regarding the insurance, the DVLA check your details with the insurance industry database and when it come to MOT's you don't need to produce them either now as they are electronically registered.

BTW I learned yesterday that Traffic Wardens can also access the DVLA/Insurance and MOT databases when they were dealing with a stupid person who as not disabled and parked in a disabled bay in the town centre, who had not paid her road tax, had no MOT and according to them she was not insured either. The lady was most p*ssed off when they told her that the police recovery vehicle was coming to take her Mini Cooper S/Cd away to the pound until she could produce all the paperwork - in this case I'm glad to see the traffic wardens not celebrating the season of good will! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Ahh but are you s
ure it was meant fro you David?  Mack

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mack wrote:

Ahh but are you s
ure it was meant fro you David?

you had me worried, checked and yes it is for me!!!  David

These data bases are only as good as the people who are inputting the data. My son had his car written off by an insurance company who he wasn't even with. He didn't know anything about it until he sold the car and the new owner came to insure it. The registation number was only 1 out from the number of the car that should have been written off.

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It may well be easy to renew Road Tax on-line, however this is also part of the Governments grand plan to save money and in the process make local Post Offices less and less viable.

It's one thing to demand that POs stand on their own feet, and become commercially viable, but another if you then bit by bit remove a huge chuck of their business (benefits, pensions, now road tax). Emmmmm  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

Jan, I'm very sorry that our village subpostoffice will be closing in February and we will have to travel 16 miles to carry out postal things, however we have never been able to buy our road tax in it and for 4 years we haven't been able to buy a TV licence there either. Pensions and stamps are about all that subpostoffices are allowed to sell these days........................... oh and the odd postcard! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
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Yes that's sad Tim. However, even those POs that did sell road tax (our village/small rural town) now sell many less, due to the heavy marketing of online renewals by DVLC (alias the Govt) :evil:

Trouble is, online does have several advantages, as the string starter said!  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

I shall continue to renew my Road Tax through the Village Post Office. The Government has already removed TV Licensing renewal and tried to take away pension payments from The Post Offices.

Use it or lose it!

This is the price we pay for the advances in technology.

I haven't been to see my bank for over 5 years now because everything is done online or over the phone. Unfortunately thats the way everything will go eventually with most of the highstreet closing up shop and moving onto the internet. ______________________
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We at least still have a bank in the next village , with 6 staff! The branch in my village was a part time branch in a proper bank building that opened 3 days a week, then it became a mobile bank and now we have to travel 5 miles each way to visit a branch. I use to have online banking but closed it down when the bank wouldn't let me into the system from overseas........................... now I go and have a coffee and natter with the girls in a bank instead of pressing a few computer buttons and am safe in the knowledge that no phisher is going to get my password details! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
Now driving - RRE Coupe Dynamic Lux Auto with Plus pack, Fuji White, Ebony, SD4 with tow pack
Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
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you're right ,,, we have to embrace new technology. Though I'm not sure that was the motivation for the POs being sidelined in Govt affairs. I'm also not sure how the internet will help us posting letters & parcels or indeed drawing out cash!  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

I found out the other week that you can buy postage stamps online now! Ok so they aren't the nice special edition ones, you have to print them out onto self adhesive labels thus saving the PO from the expense of buying paper and ink themselves.

Nick, my youngest nephew who is 3 years old is convinced that the cd drawers on my sister's PC are where money comes from, so maybe one day we will not need to go to the "hole in then wall" to get dosh out of the bank! How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
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Your experience with the CD tray reminds me of the Peter Serafinowicz sketch on TV regarding the availability of "Internet Ham". You placed an order online and the slices of ham then appeared in the CD tray.

......well I thought it was funny.

.... a bit like the person who couldn't receive a fax because he'd run out of paper and the sender offering to fax him some.

Whilst the "virtual" world of the internet is extremely useful, it is no substitute for the "real" world.............or is it??