TV Licence article Discussion

cw18

I wouldn't be happy to have to pay through income tax OR my electricity bill.      I'd have to try and find a way to follow 'The Good Life' with solar panels and be totally self sufficient

cw18

So, since last Thursday I've discovered I've been delivering a style of threat letter I'd not seen before.    I managed to acquire a non-deliverable one, so I've taken some pics to share.   Excuse the lens wipe package on one photo - it was the only thing I had readily to hand to cover the address!!    The final photo shows the leaflet opened out with one our 'sorry we missed you' leaflets on top to try and demonstrate the (much smaller than normal) size - I figured most folks will have seen one of our forms at some time or other.

Watchkeeper

The address can still be obtained from the postcode and flat number in the 3rd picture.

cw18

Watchkeeper said:

The address can still be obtained from the postcode and flat number in the 3rd picture.

Thanks for the head up - now removed.   I'd checked two or three times, but totally missed that one

Cornucopia

How desperate must they be to employ people using public money to come up with this nonsense?

Watchkeeper

"Our officers visit an address every 6 seconds". Ignoring the obvious joke ("the homeowner must be pretty cheesed off"), a visit every 6 seconds means 10 visits every minute and therefore 600 visits per hour. Since there are roughly 300 licence salesmen that's 1 visit per salesman every half-hour. It's always good to do the maths.

cw18

They're either knocking on every door in a street or not spending long anywhere, as there's travelling time to be accounted for as well.....

FreeBear

Watchkeeper said: The address can still be obtained from the postcode and flat number in the 3rd picture.

The information is also embedded in the QR code as well I believe... And certainly extra information encoded in the orange bar code that the iLSM added.

cw18

FreeBear said:

The information is also embedded in the QR code as well I believe... And certainly extra information encoded in the orange bar code that the iLSM added.

Both now also gone, although not as worried by those as not readable by eye.     You should see the gubbins connected to the QR code when our scanners decide to not to play nicely and lob thousands of characters onto our screens    Used to take what felt like hours to get it all cleared off so we could carry on !!!

FreeBear

cw18 said: Both now also gone, although not as worried by those as not readable by eye.

A shame you can't do the same for the actual letter... It just means another bit of pointless paper to add to the growing pile of unopened TVL rubbish when one drops through my door.