- Joined
- Sunday April 11, 2021
- Location
- Not too far from LHR
CornHub! Hoe hoe hoe!
It's a brave new world. The idea of everything electronic and at your fingertips is great, but the reality is disappointing.It's not something that made my day a crap one, but something that irked me nevertheless ... and when I'm irked, I always try to look on the bright side. So, today, I personally funded an overworked and underfunded Government department - the DVLA.
I applied to renew my driving license and got to the payment part, popped in my details and paid. Then, the site crashed. End of ... I tried again and when I got to the bit where I put in my old license details, the website said that it could not lookup my details and to try again later. So, I guessed that it hadn't worked and there was a general fault with the web process. But, I'd paid! My bank pinged me a notification on my phone.
No web chat, the message on the phone basically says "go away" and so I sent an email to clarify whether my application was successful. The email replied: "Due to the volume of mail received here each day, it is not possible for us to confirm receipt of your application". Grrr!
I've just re-done the application, gingerly paid ... and it returned to the confirmation screen where I could (now) finished the process. But I've paid twice now, with absolutely no method of talking to anyone at the DVLA about it.
So, what made my day a good one? I got my pants pulled down and paid for the privilege. But at least it wasn't a speeding fine!
I do have be honest here and say that if paying twice was the cost of not having to fill in a paper form, troop down to some shopping mall where there's a photo booth, buy photos, attach to form and post ... it was money well spent! Mrs renewed hers a couple of months ago and it went without a hitch, new license arrived within the week! What I am reading is, the DVLA (that's our DMV) is simply not even processing paper applications at the moment.It's a brave new world. The idea of everything electronic and at your fingertips is great, but the reality is disappointing.
But at least it wasn't a speeding fine!
They'd have to catch me first! Ah! No, they don't even have to do that.I'm sure they can arrange for that.
They can just mail it to you. Or just put it on your record and keep your pesos.They'd have to catch me first! Ah! No, they don't even have to do that.
They can just mail it to you. Or just put it on your record and keep your pesos.
Managed to hone and strop a straight razor that someone kindly gave me.
Then I had a shave.... Only a few minor war wounds.
But hey hey hey.... I'm happy.
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Looks great! Good work Chris.Finally finishing the garden at my dad's old place over in Yorkshire. Very limited on the budget so we made the best of what remained. Very happy with the end result
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Looks fab Chris, lovely job.Finally finishing the garden at my dad's old place over in Yorkshire. Very limited on the budget so we made the best of what remained. Very happy with the end result
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