Press success.

patman99

My local rag published a front page story about a man who picked-up a 'fine' for turning-round in a hotel carpark.

I wrote-in to point-out that it was not a 'fine' but an 'unenforceable invoice', and pointing to this site and Peppioo as good places to obtain info on how to deal with them.

As said rag has a policy of not allowing comments on parking stories featured on its website, I added the following to the bottom of the email -

"P.S.

Knowing your paper has a habit of not printing anti-PPC letters, I have placed a £5 bet that this letter fails to make it into the letters page'.

The next day, the editor emailed me to ask for my address as he wished to publish it.

True to his word, it appeared, completely unedited, on the letters page.

Bearing in mind the paper is read by 65,000 people, if just 10% take-in the content of the letter, thats 6,500 people who will now know to ignore the PPC junk mail.

taffy056

Excellent stuff, wish the media would print out the facts about these invoices, my local rag is okay on this, they allow comments online of articles, and have printed a few times letters sent to them about private parking companies . They still call em fines though

robredz

My local rag has yet to take up my offer of setting up Parking Eye with invoicing a continuous stay, when there were multiple visits, with proof of being elsewhere in between.

But excellent result patman99

patman99

If everyone countered every article they come across with a letter/email for publication in the letters page, then the paper would soon start to get it's facts right.
In the meantime, every letter published is one more voice added to the crowd as they say.

patman99

Another day, another letter. This time, from another anti-PPC supporter. Even quoted my original letter. The word is spreading around N. Essex at least.

Coupon-mad

Any links to the letters page of that paper? Would be good to read it.