Post Office will soon be able to change tax class

[FredTransit]

If you want to re classify a tax class on the V5, the Post office will be doing this from January next year when many of the DVLA offices close. I had this confirmed to me at the PO today. Dunno if this will make life easier but I do know my PO is nearer than the DVLA!

[brickwall]

Ah, but lets see if they can do it without mucking it up.

[Tetleysmooth]

Good news.

But it will annoy the shit out of someone waiting behind you to post a parcel.

[FredTransit]

true, the lady l spoke to isnt too clued up bless her and she says they havent had any specific training for it yet! Also it has to be said the POs are closing too! Though when I pointed this out she did say the extra DVLA work might save em.

[Richard]

Our local PO recently had a refit, it's gone from having three counters with experienced staff to having two with newbie staff- and one of those is only occasionally staffed. It's become unusable so it will almost certainly close fairly soon. St Andrews has already lost its PO, it's now a counter in what was already a cramped branch of WH Smith. I predict that within a decade all mail will have to be taken to, and collected from, a unit on an industrial estate in Skelmersdale.

[Cavcraft]

I believe they're going to do quite a bit (if not everything) the local DVLA offices do, or did.

[Junkman]

I somehow like the idea of closing the DVLA and the Post Offices.

Let's close the damn MoT stations too and shut down the fucking guffament.

Hey, they shut it down in the States and hardly anybody noticed.

[Negative Creep]

As i said in the grump threa, it's beyond me why you can't do the v5 over the counter

[John F]

Time to register my Suzuki GSX1100S Katana as a lawnmower then

[Junkman]

Mobility scooter more, like?

[John F]

Or how about a snow plough? Or an ambulance

[Jim Bell]

My post office can't even tax a car.

 

A bigger one a few miles away will. But only if you provide a pointless sheaf of doccumentation.

 

So I chose to do it online. Where you have to provide nothing but the money and computers do the legwork.

[FredTransit]

I dunno if its changed, but you cant tax MOT exemptions like recovery trucks online. The MOT thing is a yes/no answer, unless its age exempt. If its a no = no tax

[Bobthebeard]

My local Post Office is pretty good to be honest. They almost always are able to do whatever it is I went in for.

Other Post Offices, especially in rural areas seem unable to do anything at all vehicle related*

 

*Unless you actually went there, in a vehicle, for an Eccles cake, stamp or birthday card.

[beko1987]

They'll implement it, spend billions bodging it on the whoever controls RM next week will close it all down.

 

Then sodexo or g4shite will get the gig

[Richard]

My local Post Office is pretty good to be honest. They almost always are able to do whatever it is I went in for.

Other Post Offices, especially in rural areas seem unable to do anything at all vehicle related*

 

*Unless you actually went there, in a vehicle, for an Eccles cake, stamp or birthday card.

 

Viz was still more or less a cottage industry when it was the third best selling magazine in the UK. The editor's wife used to send out the merchandising herself, which involved buying a lot of stamps. The local PO didn't like that one bit, they complained that it didn't leave any stamps for their regular customers- apparently spending hundreds of pounds a week on stamps didn't make you a regular and they didn't like the obvious solution of just buying more stamps in.

 

Apparently Mrs Brady, Old Lady was based on those regular customers who spent something like £2 a week, mostly on cat food.

[FredTransit]

My post office can't even tax a car.

 

A bigger one a few miles away will. But only if you provide a pointless sheaf of doccumentation.

 

So I chose to do it online. Where you have to provide nothing but the money and computers do the legwork.

what documentation?

1 Renewal (also V5)

2 Insurance

 

MOT is on thier system so you dont need the bit of paper. Why the insurance isnt I dont know.....

[Cavcraft]

I dunno if its changed, but you cant tax MOT exemptions like recovery trucks online. The MOT thing is a yes/no answer, unless its age exempt. If its a no = no tax

 

 

Good. The sooner they do away with MOT exempt recovery trucks, the better. It seems to me that 99% of people who apply for test exemption are benter than several nine bob notes.

[Jim Bell]

what documentation?

1 Renewal (also V5)

2 Insurance

 

MOT is on thier system so you dont need the bit of paper. Why the insurance isnt I dont know.....

 

You specifically need a Certificate Of Motor Insurance, MOT certificate, and the V5 if you dont have the reminder letter.(this is what I was told at the counter)

They wont accept any other form of insurance verification. Even if its current. As I found out when I tried to tax a car with a Verification Of Insurance Certificate (which was all I was provided with when I changed the car on the policy) and showed her on my smartphone app (ooo get me!) that the car was currently insured.

 

So I went home and did it online.

 

Oddly, the internet didnt need to see my Certificate Of Motor Insurance. Didnt care about seeing my MOT cert. And it didnt care about the V5 (though I did have the reminder).

 

Would be a far simpler process for the woman at the Post Office to just tax it online, then issue the disk over the counter.

 

Which would do away with the need for any documentation.

[FredTransit]

I have taxed loads of times without the actual cert. One year I never saw the bit of paper. One year I had a stand up row about the insurance being wrong, got the tax then realised back at the van I had shown the schedule not the cert!! ooooops!

[Albert Ross]

I once taxed a car with the wrong MOT. Meh.

[FredTransit]

so good of the PO to give jobs to the visually impaired!