DVLA and paper licences

Spivved1987

user1977 said:

Presumably for this offence to be prosecuted the police would have come to your door, proving that they weren't confused by the postcode...?

Good thinking!

SiliconChip

Spivved1987 said:

Mildly_Miffed said:

Aha. Something just stirred in my memory...

This is the Wirral, isn't it? Liverpool to CHester...

Back in 1999, Royal Mail had this to say... "However, to cause as little inconvenience and expense as possible, we will programme our sorting programme to read both old and new postcodes for at least 12 months from that date and possibly longer, if required."
https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/7433189.why-we-are-changing-postcodes-royal-mail/

The old L41-66 postcode areas haven't been reissued (yet?), so the postcodes are simply invalid, rather than actively taking post to the wrong place. But post sent to an L postcode would be routed to the wrong sorting office, in Liverpool, rather than the correct one in Chester, so it will be delayed.

Bingo! Excellent detective work.

But you misled us by saying:

"

(1) Paper licence address: 

123 Anytown Road

Any County

UK

X55 4AG

and 

(2) Current postal address:

123 Anytown Road

Any County

UK

Y55 4AG"

whereas in fact the current postal address has a postcode of YZ55 4AG, so if @Mildly_Miffed hadn't just decided to ignore what you said we'd still be floundering looking for a postcode where only the initial letter had been changed, which doesn't exist.