Missed appeal deadline for Heathrow T2 drop off APCOA parking charge

Dragonflew1010

Forgot to pay the drop off charge in early August and received the notice promptly from APCOA a week later. Then received a debt collection letter from Debt Recovery plus and didn't pay that either (by early November).

I have read the newbies thread post 4 and it says to just ignore. If it were mine i would, but it's in my parent's name (and they were the driver) so i don't think they'd want to see constant debt recovery letters being posted. Is the only option left to avoid paying the fine is to ignore? Can i not try dispute somehow?

Thank you

Gr1pr

No dispute, just IGNORE the powerless debt collectors letters,  nothing will happen 

Shred them and use in the hamster cage

I get junk mail every day,  so I feed them into my blue recycling bin,  no biggie

Dragonflew1010

Gr1pr said:

No dispute, just IGNORE the powerless debt collectors letters,  nothing will happen 

Shred them and use in the hamster cage

I get junk mail every day,  so I feed them into my blue recycling bin,  no biggie

Thanks, Will they eventually just give up? Or will they continue to send it for years? 

Gr1pr

Depends on if its a PCN or a PN

Either way,  it's irrelevant,  Apcoa don't do court,  especially not for airport cases

Even if you have to feed the recycling bin for years, who cares  ?  You still have to throw away junk mail or out of date mail regularly anyway , I have been recycling for decades and just fed mine an hour ago after the postman came

There is a petition to ban drop off fees at airports,  have you signed it  ?  I have 

Coupon-mad

They'll give up.

Why haven't you just gone online as the keeper and changed his/her address for service to yours? Then you get the letters and ignore them, telling your parents they'll hear no more.  

Dragonflew1010

Coupon-mad said:

They'll give up.

Why haven't you just gone online as the keeper and changed his/her address for service to yours? Then you get the letters and ignore them, telling your parents they'll hear no more.  

I live with them haha. But thank you both i will just ignore them. Hopefully it won't be for long. We actually received 2 PCNs from the same drop off (departure and arrivals) and they've given up on the first already it seems (no letters beyond the intial PCN).

Gr1pr

The first 6 to 12 months could be the most mither, but ignoring debt collectors letters is a simple task,  my 4 year old granddaughter could easily do so, she was shredding my junk mail last week 

Coupon-mad

They haven't given up. Silly letters will arrive for months. 

Nellymoser

Care to join the 2,194 citizens who are asking Govt to Ban Drop-off charges at Airports sign and share 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/724381 This one CLOSED 19/11/25

47,875  have signed the same petition on Change.org