Minxy
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- Aug 22, 2007
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As we're going on holiday to Germany shortly for 7 weeks, and our van's tax runs out at the end of May, today I went to the Post Office to get a new tax disc. I took my old and new insurance policy docs, registration doc, and completed tax disc form and handed it all to the chap behind the counter along with £225 (ouch :shout.
He took my money and gave me all the paperwork back, along with a new tax disc, great, all sorted or so I thought. When I got home I was just about to trim the new disc to size to put in the van ready to be swapped over at the end of the month and noticed that the flipping numpty hadn't read the date that I wanted it from, which I'd written correctly on the form, so had done it to end on 30/4/14 instead of 31/5/14!!! oh: So as to avoid any possible 'problem' when I went back I took the existing tax disc with me to prove I had tax until the end of May.
Back into the village again and had to wait for the numpty to get off the phone to the DVLA - he was discussing something he'd done 'wrong' with them and how to rectify it ... looks like he makes a habit of it! He realised that I needed to see him and asked reluctantly what was the matter whilst he 'hovered' behind the glass between 2 hatches, so I slapped the current disc and the new disc on the glass so he could read them and said he'd docked me a month! I passed all the paperwork back to him and he mumbled to himself a bit then tore up the old one and did me a new 'correct' one and passed it back ... no 'sorry' ... nothing. :Angry:
I should've know when I went the first time as the numpty was being flippant with a chap in front of me about a parcel he was sending ... perhaps if he'd been more concerned with doing his job than trying to be a clever dick he might have got it right the first time. Only saving grace was that the village is only a couple of minutes drive away from home.
So the moral of the story is check your tax disc just in case you get a numpty too!
He took my money and gave me all the paperwork back, along with a new tax disc, great, all sorted or so I thought. When I got home I was just about to trim the new disc to size to put in the van ready to be swapped over at the end of the month and noticed that the flipping numpty hadn't read the date that I wanted it from, which I'd written correctly on the form, so had done it to end on 30/4/14 instead of 31/5/14!!! oh: So as to avoid any possible 'problem' when I went back I took the existing tax disc with me to prove I had tax until the end of May.
Back into the village again and had to wait for the numpty to get off the phone to the DVLA - he was discussing something he'd done 'wrong' with them and how to rectify it ... looks like he makes a habit of it! He realised that I needed to see him and asked reluctantly what was the matter whilst he 'hovered' behind the glass between 2 hatches, so I slapped the current disc and the new disc on the glass so he could read them and said he'd docked me a month! I passed all the paperwork back to him and he mumbled to himself a bit then tore up the old one and did me a new 'correct' one and passed it back ... no 'sorry' ... nothing. :Angry:
I should've know when I went the first time as the numpty was being flippant with a chap in front of me about a parcel he was sending ... perhaps if he'd been more concerned with doing his job than trying to be a clever dick he might have got it right the first time. Only saving grace was that the village is only a couple of minutes drive away from home.
So the moral of the story is check your tax disc just in case you get a numpty too!