Dirty Robbing Bastards!

[russell]

Letter from DVLA saying my driving licence was about to expire, and they would demand £20 for the privilege just to renew it

Can I expense it?

Why don't you do a few more shifts at Aldi and you'll earn the £20 in not time.

[SimonMac]

Why don't you do a few more shifts at Aldi and you'll earn the £20 in not time.

I'm on Workfare so only get JSA + Travelling costs

[Support Monkey]

And just something else to think about for anyone sending their licence to the DVLA, if you have motorcycle entitlement, make a copy of your license before you send it because they have a bad habit of not putting the motorcycle entitlement back on the new licence and then you have to prove you had entitlement in the first place and if you cannot you will have to take a retest

[Troll]

Same here, in fact I've got two, one with (now expired) points on and one that's clean.

<ahem> did anyone else do the "send off for a new one as soon as you knew you were going to get points added" trick. A friend says he did it all the time

[AtW]

36 million motorists in the UK, 10% renewing every year means an extra £72m in the govt coffers in stealth tax, no counting all the PCV and HGV licence renewals

£20 is cheap every 10 years for something as essential as driving license - priting it, processing letters cost money you know.

[russell]

I'm on Workfare so only get JSA + Travelling costs

Good to see you can take a joke.

[SimonMac]

I'm a joke that no one finds funny anymore, or ever did for that matter.

FTFY

[SimonMac]

£20 is cheap every 10 years for something as essential as driving license - priting it, processing letters cost money you know.

But if you didn't have to renew the licence there would be no associated cost for printing or processing letters

[stek]

AIUI the licence doesn't expire until you're 70, but the photo does after 10 years, so better get a new pic without the mullett.

[MarillionFan]

Hee hee. Still got my nice old paper one. I also still have my petrol vouchers issued during Edward Heath's fuel shortage thing. Never know when I might need them.

Forgot to mention, a Jesus Christ phoned earlier Xoggoth asking if you still had that shekel he lent you.