P.O Box 410
Bristol
BS99 5HP
30 May 2008
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28 Jan 2008
Dear Sirs,
Request for refund of license.
I am applying for a license fee refund as I have moved into my Girlfriend’s house (address above), and she already has a license. I surrendered my lease on my previous home on 19 October 2007, but was unable to locate my license certificate until last weekend when it surprised me by falling out of a book.
I enclose my final gas bill to prove the date of termination, and confirm that the information I have given is correct and that the licence will not be required between 19 October 2007 and the date the licence expires.
Yours faithfully,
Well, that’s how it started out – a simple request by letter as erroneously directed by your department, scuppered only by the need for an obscure form that had to be sent to me, rather than downloaded as that would have made it just too accessible.
So said form was duly sent out, arriving eventually at the address which I had of course left months previously. Now that it’s finally reached me four months later I have mislaid the original TV license and according to the form you will not entertain my claim without it, despite the fact that it will be recorded in full on your database.
May I take this opportunity to congratulate you on a superlatively bureaucratic and obstructive system which has in this case worked to your financial advantage, though I can’t give you the exact figure as you have all the information, as well as my money. I will not now be arguing in favour of TV licensing in future.
Yours faithfully
Peter
