Please Help! Advise please?! TV License

Xbigman

Check your licence to make sure the post office date stamp is clear, then just ignore them.
I had this problem. I inherited my fathers house and bought a TV licence but the licensing people just couldn't understand he didn't need a TV licence for three months after the last one ran out, due to being dead .
Eventually I had a visit and it was all settled when I produced the death certificate. The people who visit seem to do an OK job at sorting things out.
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marty1888 wrote:

Yep, if you have a TV license its best to ignore them. Let them waste their money by sending someone round to check rather than you having to phone them only for them to continually mess up.

The sentiment is excellent, but unfortunately it's not their money being wasted, but ours and is typical of the bureaucracy which we face in the country today.

I received an extremely unpleasant letter some months ago from TV Licensing which was at the least threatening and at worst criminal. If it had been received by an elderly person, it would certainly have caused them significant mental anguish and distress.

They wrote because my unoccupied flat had no TV License and they simply refused to accept that any property could survive without a TV. When I replied and pointed out the crass nature of their communicaton skills, I received a two page diatribe patronising me with stories of license evasion.

I eventually wrote to my MP with copies of all correspondence and received a grovelling apology together with a promise that they would mend their ways.

It looks like that's happened, doesn't it.:rotfl:

celosia

I refuse to spend money sorting out when someone else mucks up - added to which I dislike using the phone - so when I had hassle with TV licensing over my address I contacted them via their website, ignored subsequent letters, explained the situation again when I cancelled it, and when they said an officer would come round to check I thought I'd at last have the chance to explain face to face and that would be the end of it. All that time they were threatening all sorts and I just thought "bring it on", I'm in the right, but it seems they're "all mouth and no trousers". Part of me thinks I should have started proceedings against them for harrassment and misleading me, but it's all settled down and I haven't had a letter for ages. Though I do keep the letters (sent and received) together and near the door in case this elusive officer actually decides to visit.