DVLA

What they done?

Or not done?

This has nothing to do with a SORN does it...... :(

Regards

William MacLeod

Theyre useless for more than just the SORN stuff!

I live about 3 miles away and they have lots of windows (nudge nudge ;) ) if you get my drift

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So come on Martyn, what did the do/not do?

`Mark

Must admit when I received my new V5 for the 90 with someone else's address on it(we have a sensible postman who looked at the name) I too thought much the same.

On or around Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:05:01 -0000, "Mike Jones Super Hero" enlightened us thusly:

yer been to the off-road place in Pontardawe?

"Bob Hobden" wrote in news:bu6jmq$eftlc$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-93475.news.uni-berlin.de:

Oh I don't know, at least they gave me a good laugh!

Went to get tax in Inverness the other day. Only one customer in the DVLA office who is busy filling out his application form. So I go up to the window.

Clerkess says I must first go to the large Darlik (sp?) like machine in the corner with buttons all over it and get a ticket to show my place in the queue.

Now, I am the only one there (apart from the writer in the corner)! I remonstrate but "It's the rules. There will be a couple of hundred in here in a few minutes". The Writer helpfully shows me how to negotiate the buttons and a ticket pops out.

15 seconds after this, a disembodied voice emmanates from the ceiling, "Would the holder of ticket 2546B please go to window Number Two".

I go to Window Number Two. There is nobody there. Clerkess in Window Number One says I should come to Window Number One. I ask, is she sure this will be OK and not against the rules?

By this time, the man filling up his form, myself, and clerkess are in hysterics! Bureaucrasy may be mad but it is cheap and harmless amusement too!

When I left the office, there was only one man there. He was busily pressing buttons to get his ticket so he wouldn't lose his place in the queue when the marauding hordes arrived...

Derry

No but I have been thinking about ........ are you thinking of going ?

Derry, been in that very office, last working day of December to tax my car and change the number plate. There were people out in the corridor and people swapping tickets to get things moving quicker. A funny sight indeed, especially when the monotone voice directed you to a window with a large closed sign that the bespectacled gentleman behind had to peer over/under!!! Long live red-tape!! (Have to say that, the government pays my wages!!!) Teeheehee. Badger

|| || Oh I don't know, at least they gave me a good laugh! || || Went to get tax in Inverness the other day. Only one customer in || the DVLA office who is busy filling out his application form. So || I go up to the window. || ||

LOL!

On or around Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:40:56 -0000, "Mike Jones Super Hero" enlightened us thusly:

went there in Jan, probably won't have spare pennies in Feb, so I expect March will be the next time for me. I gather they run the first sunday of the month, which'll be the 1st of feb, I guess.

does your email address work?

You have mail Austin

Mike

On or around Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:46:48 -0000, "Mike Jones Super Hero" enlightened us thusly:

aye. bleddy mail servers are all to pot. first the V21 smtp server I send through went awol, now Freeserve's pop server is playing silly buggers.

On or around Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:39:52 +0000, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

account had got suspended. ooops. that'll tech me to dial up through someone else's service to get me email...

normally, I put summat on the website more often than every 90 days... which has to be dialled through freeserve's line to work.