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Presumed delivery of PCN
melbelle17
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Hi, I have posted on here before about a Premier Park/DRP debt letter and need to follow up.
We received a DRP letter three months after an alleged parking violation, which was the first we'd heard of it. No PCN or reminder letter from Premier Park. Also the DRP letter refers to an earlier letter of theirs that never arrived. DRP have now sent three more letters (all dated the same day?!), one of which says that delivery of their correspondence is 'presumed' under PoFA Schedule 4, and that it is a matter to raise with our postal service.
This means that DRP are asking us to accept that the postman has lost no less than three letters relating to our case, and possibly more for all I know. Given that in that time he has delivered all our other post as far as I know without losing anything, isn't it ridiculous that we are supposed to believe he has only lost post relating to the parking charge, and several items at that?
The rather convenient disappearance of all previous correspondence means that we could not pay a reduced charge within 14 days, could not check the evidence, and could not get a POPLA code. Isn't this an obvious loophole for parking companies and debt collectors to get more money out of people?
Does anyone else have experience of this or have any thoughts on how to deal with it? We don't want to end up in court but to pay up without questioning the outrageous business practices sticks in the throat!
We received a DRP letter three months after an alleged parking violation, which was the first we'd heard of it. No PCN or reminder letter from Premier Park. Also the DRP letter refers to an earlier letter of theirs that never arrived. DRP have now sent three more letters (all dated the same day?!), one of which says that delivery of their correspondence is 'presumed' under PoFA Schedule 4, and that it is a matter to raise with our postal service.
This means that DRP are asking us to accept that the postman has lost no less than three letters relating to our case, and possibly more for all I know. Given that in that time he has delivered all our other post as far as I know without losing anything, isn't it ridiculous that we are supposed to believe he has only lost post relating to the parking charge, and several items at that?
The rather convenient disappearance of all previous correspondence means that we could not pay a reduced charge within 14 days, could not check the evidence, and could not get a POPLA code. Isn't this an obvious loophole for parking companies and debt collectors to get more money out of people?
Does anyone else have experience of this or have any thoughts on how to deal with it? We don't want to end up in court but to pay up without questioning the outrageous business practices sticks in the throat!
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1) You should keep everything in your original thread
2) Ignore DRP - see this thread:https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/50356630
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