Praise to the DVLA

rrl28

I filled out the form online on Mon 25th July to renew my driving licence for the 3rd time since I became 70 and I received my licence in the post today 28th July.

Admiral_Barbarossa

That is shocking, only last week on Tuesday we sent the Wife's license off to be renewed and the thing dropped on the mat Saturday morning!

Murphybear

I renewed mine due to being 70 soon and it took 3 days 

I bought a new (to me) car recently and the new V5 arrived in a week.  I was quite impressed 

GaleSF63

rrl28 said:

I filled out the form online on Mon 25th July to renew my driving licence for the 3rd time since I became 70 and I received my licence in the post today 28th July.

Same here - almost - in July 2020 a few months after Covid restrictions hit. Mine took from Monday evening online to arriving on Friday morning.

mark1959

I've never had a problem with them. SORNing and re taxing cars and motorbikes many times over the years.

artyboy

Youngest daughter applied for her provisional and got it through in under a week!  Could we maybe move a few of their staff to the passport office?

Brie

I was rather annoyed on Monday when I went to the post office to renew my photocard (online wasn't an option) and at the end of it all they wouldn't give me back my card.  I thought I would be needing it to rent a car in the next couple of weeks so was not a happy bunny at all assuming I wouldn't have it back for a month or more.  Particularly as the last time we needed to do stuff with the DVLA it took them 2 months to return my license when we moved and took 3 attempts to get them to replace and update the OH's - about 8 months in total for that.

So surprise surprise....new photocard is here today.  Must have been instantly processed assuming it would have been in the post for about 2 days.