Working for the Post Office

[Rapscallion]

The TV License somebody mentioned above is just THAT... In the UK if own a TV set you need to buy a License and costs around £12 a month.

It gets interesting if you don't own a television. I've had to tell them that I don't have one, and I received a rather charming, red-bordered letter to say that I'd better not be lying and that they would be checking up on me.

If they put programmes on that were worth watching, of course...

Raspcallion

[It's me]

It gets interesting if you don't own a television. I've had to tell them that I don't have one, and I received a rather charming, red-bordered letter to say that I'd better not be lying and that they would be checking up on me.

Ah! Now I get it. I was trying to figure out how they kept track of who has a television, and who does not.

Where I am we still have annual dog licences, and one-time cat licences. I'm not sure exactly why...

[Pagan]

The Post Office is part of the Royal Mail Group and I agree the postal service is very good and not as bad as people make out. A letter to Australia only costs 79p and a first class inland stamp costs 34p.

Crazy UK Government...... it wasn't that long ago we had to have a License to own a Radio and even a DOG License was needed years ago.

I completely forgot....I just recently sent a b-day card to the Duke of Hamilton (we have the same b-day!) and it only cost 92-cents! Not even a freakin' dollar!

And we have dog licenses here, too. Albuquerque even has the somewhat idiot HART ordinance. Which means, unless you pay more for an "intact" animal license, you have to get your animal spayed or neutered. There's even one part that dictates how many toys your bird must have. But Mayor Marty said they weren't going to enforce that part.

[Rapscallion]

The dog licence over here was done away with back in the eighties if I remember right. It used to be the butt of jokes, since TV licences are of different costs for colour and black&white sets, so people joked about getting black and white dogs for cheaper licences.

Yes, it wasn't that funny even back then.

However, when it was a licenced animal, you had to report to the police if you ran over a dog. You don't have to now. I've never known a cat licence in the UK, but I may be too young to know about one.

Rapscallion

[UK Worker]

License for this and a License for that.... One License I wish they would bring out is one to stop these tramps getting Pregnant so they can get a HOUSE and Child Benefit.

I see them all the time at the Post office, bragging about how much money they are raking in and discussing ways to get even more money from the system. They get more money then I do per week and they have hardly any bills too pay. What does the money go on... errr, holidays, hair highlights, clubbing.

[Moonlight]

Ah UK Worker, I sympathise with you. I use the Post Office quite a bit and the people in there never cease to amaze me. I went in today to pick up some stamps (I needed odd ones like 54p otherwise I'd have picked them up at the supermarket) and there was some little old guy quibbling over his lottery. Apparently he thought he'd won £10 but the lottery machine kept "uh-uh, no". Nice staff member trying to explain it to him but he was having none of it. Queue is out the door and the poor lady is on by herself (on a Saturday?!). Everyone huffing and puffing about this little old man. Eventually, after 10 minutes, he gives in. Apparently it had been going on longer and I'd come in half way through. UK Worker - I salute you and your bravery in working for the PO!

[Shengirl]

Which means, unless you pay more for an "intact" animal license, you have to get your animal spayed or neutered.

Wow, that's...that's an excellent idea. I mean, I wouldn't like to pay a dog license, but if there was a license only for people who did not have spayed/neutered pets, that would be great. We need some kind of deterrent over here. Feral animals and the animals destroyed in shelters ever day, it's disgusting. So much waste because people don't fix Pierre the poodle, and then the basenji next door goes into heat...

[cinema guy]

Ah! Now I get it. I was trying to figure out how they kept track of who has a television, and who does not.

They have a database of every address in the UK, and check up on any address that has not got a licence. They also use 'detector' vans.

Interestingly a blind person gets a 50% reduction in their TV licence.

[Becks]

Interestingly a blind person gets a 50% reduction in their TV licence.

Well, they can still listen.

[Bliss]

BTW as far as I know, the TV license applies to anything with a tunner in it, not just a TV, por example it would apply to a computer with a tuner card, or a vcr.

[cinema guy]

Yes, although you can get exemptions if you just use your TV set as a CCTV monitor or the like.

[UK Worker]

I had another Customer from hell the other day regarding Passports.

The story was that she was applying for her first passport and the name on her application form was different to that on her Birth Certificate. OK no big problem, women get married and take on her husbands surname. In that case they need to send their Marriage Certificate off too.

Only this women didn't have her Marriage Certificate anymore because she got divorced. Found it a tad strange that she would continue to use her husbands surname when no longer married - but hey thats nothing to do with me and each to their own.

Anyway, she went apeshit, freaking out and calling the post office staff a waste of space because she came in a few days earlyer to have it checked, she made some mistakes on the form and the clerk who served her never told her about the marriage certificate.

I told her in clear english..... If the name on your Application is different then that on your Birth Certificate then you need to provide proof of the change for example Marriage Certificate or DeedPoll Certificate.

I said the only thing you can do is fill out a new application form but use the name on your birth certificate. Her excuss was that her bank account and driving license is in THAT name and she wants her Passport in that name too.

I told she couldn't have the passport in that name unless you provide a marriage license, she freaked again saying she doesn't have it because shes divorced. I also mensioned that she could change her surname via Deedpoll for around £15... she freaked some more about the added cost.

Before storming off in a huff, she shouted I can't even get out of my god damn country but it's SOOOOOOO easy for people to GET IN!!!!!!!!!.

Which is true... but thats another story

[Becks]

Only this women didn't have her Marriage Certificate anymore because she got divorced. Found it a tad strange that she would continue to use her husbands surname when no longer married - but hey thats nothing to do with me and each to their own.

Convenience?

For the sake of the kids?

Because she can/wants to?

[digilight]

They're called liscensing fees in North America. Good for a year. Varies from $25ish up to percentage of vehicle value (can exceed $300 for standard vehicles. Don't want to think about what a high-luxury vehicle would run).

I remember, when my former boss got his Lexus LS430 the license fee was over 700 bucks the first year. I know another guy who has a Rolls who last time I checked payed over 5000 bucks (yup 5 grand) a year for the license fee. Fuggan hell it must be nice to have stupid amounts of money!

License for this and a License for that.... One License I wish they would bring out is one to stop these tramps getting Pregnant so they can get a HOUSE and Child Benefit.

I believe that would be a called a "FUCKING LICENSE" and I do agree

Back to the UK TV License, is it per TV, or per household. What if you have 4 TV's in your house but only pay for one license. How do they know that you have multiples? I am becoming intrigued!

[cinema guy]

TV licence is per household.