Send a card to a private parking co. this Christmas!

Coupon-mad · 29 November 2009 at 12:39PM

Thanks all, I have updated the first post with everyone's wording suggestions and addresses. :rotfl:

Paranoid · 29 November 2009 at 3:12PM

Good idea, but do not send cards to all these companies as they are all the same.

Star Controlled Parking Ltd
Central Parking Services Ltd
Central Parking Services (Middlesex) Ltd
Central Parking Management Ltd

All are/were operated by father and son Mark & Damien Haywood of

11 Stiven Crescent, South Harrow, Middx. HA2 9AX

Dissolving and rising from the ashes appears to be provoked by debts and CCJ's.............!

GT60 · 29 November 2009 at 4:40PM

Dont forget the chequerd fringe on the envolope!

trisontana · 29 November 2009 at 5:41PM

You could also add:-

"For all appeals concerning this card, telephone 01382 227820"

trisontana · 29 November 2009 at 7:59PM

Here is another PPC that has just popped up on the Pepipoo forum:-

A.S. Securi-T
Office 70
151 High Street
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 2BT.

This company insists on calling its toilet paper a "Penalty Charge Notice".

Well that's one law broken for a start.

Coupon-mad · 29 November 2009 at 8:23PM

mrcow wrote: »

I may send one to Civil Enforcement Ltd for all the free toilet paper they have sent me this year. (And their colleages from Newlyn)

Thanks guys.

Is a this addy I found with a Google search, the right addy for CEL?

EDIT: thanks to HO87 for real addy for CEL! Now in first post.

And is there a different addy we can use to 'spread the love' to Newlyn?!

HO87 · 30 November 2009 at 3:10AM

Many of these addresses are registered offices and bear no resemblance to the actual operating bases of the companies concerned. PCN-UK, whose given address is in Bridgend when they actually operate from offices in Chorley, Lancs, being but one example. I think if we are to demonstrate our true seasonal respects that we should send the cards to their real addresses not the covers many of them use.

By the by, Chorley and nearby Preston seem to be the homes to an inordinate number of parking-related companies. Can anyone offer an explanation?

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Is this addy I found with a Google search, the right addy for CEL?

CIVIL ENFORCEMENT LTD
DBH House
Carlton Square
Nottingham NG4 3BP

and is there a different addy we can use to 'spread the love' to Newlyn?!

According to my records CEL's current address is:

Horton House
Exchange Flags
Liverpool
MERSEYSIDE
L2 3PF

According to ICO information they also trade under the names of "Trafficguard", "CE-Service" and "Creative Car Park". They "moved" from their address in Nottingham in 2007 although it would seem that they are owned by Creative Parking Solutions PLC of 5, Percy Street, Office 4, London, W1T 1DG.

As for Newlyn PLC it would depend on what part of the company you wanted to "give your love to". According to publicly available records their "credit" wing is based at:

180-188 Northolt Road,
South Harrow,
Middlesex,
HA2 0LT

Whilst their bailiff operation appears to be based here:

59, Clarke Road,
Northampton,
Northants,
NN1 4PL

Interestingly, Newlyn's registered office is also the registered office for another PPC favourite - G24.

trisontana wrote: »

Here is another PPC that has just popped up on the Pepipoo forum:-

A.S. Securi-T
Office 70
151 High Street
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 2BT.

This company insists on calling its toilet paper a "Penalty Charge Notice".

This may or may not be a "cover address" but the company is definitely based in Southampton. Hanging by their finger nails though, they survived one proposal to strike off in March 2009 and are now subject of another. Will this be another "phoenix" operation?

trisontana · 30 November 2009 at 8:24AM

HO87 wrote: »

By the by, Chorley and nearby Preston seem to be the homes to an inordinate number of parking-related companies. Can anyone offer an explanation?

That area of England is also a hot-spot for those scam companies that contact small businesses trying to sell them advertising space in non-existent booklets and wall calendars. They even claim that these products are somehow linked to the emergency services to give them an air of legitimacy.

Alx*27 · 30 November 2009 at 1:04PM

Love it!

Well worth a second class stamp.

There's one company who really deserve just such a gift. And it HAS to feature mince pies on the front!

dzug1 · 30 November 2009 at 1:12PM

trisontana wrote: »

But they won't be delivered to the premises. They will get a card from Royal Mail saying that there is postage to pay and they will have to visit the sorting office to pick up the letter and pay the fee. They might ignore all those RM cards, but a "genuine" letter, containing an actual cheque might be waiting for them. Will they take that risk?

If they are told there are hundreds of letters awaiting collection, I think they might well be willling to take that risk.

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