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ventaPublic service announcement: if you have a photocard driving licence, check the expiry date on it. It's "4b" on the front ("4a" is date of issue).
A colleague of mine recently tried to hire a car, and was surprised to find his photocard had expired 5 years ago. I checked mine, and despite it having only been issued in January of this year, it runs out in March 2012. We think this is because I didn't supply a new photo when I changed my address with the DVLA, and a photo is only good for ten years. March 2002 sounds a probable date for my first photocard application.
We're not sure whether or not the DVLA will write and tell you when it expires. Presumably they do... so long as they have the correct address for you :)
A colleague of mine recently tried to hire a car, and was surprised to find his photocard had expired 5 years ago. I checked mine, and despite it having only been issued in January of this year, it runs out in March 2012. We think this is because I didn't supply a new photo when I changed my address with the DVLA, and a photo is only good for ten years. March 2002 sounds a probable date for my first photocard application.
We're not sure whether or not the DVLA will write and tell you when it expires. Presumably they do... so long as they have the correct address for you :)
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Date: 2010-12-13 04:22 pm (UTC)so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:31 pm (UTC)IIRC it's an offence not to tell them your new address within a few months, so if they don't then you might want to get that sorted l-)
Mine runs out sometime next year.
Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:34 pm (UTC)I think it starts with university - people who have licences don't switch when they move to university (keeping their parents' address as their permanent address due to frequent moves at college, and part-time attendance). People then seem to move fairly frequently for a bit after university... and then ten years later they suddenly realise their licence is still at their parents' address.
Certainly last time I tried to use my licence as proof-of-address in a Blockbuster video shop they refused to accept it because it was too unreliable :)
Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:38 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:38 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:44 pm (UTC)I'm not suggesting it's a good thing not to keep your address up to date, merely that empirically it happens an awful lot.
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:08 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 05:18 pm (UTC)But yes... for my model of film watching (wanting unexpectedly to watch a film, this evening, about once every three years) is very poorly catered for by the likes of Lovefilm :)
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:35 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 05:56 pm (UTC)Ooooh, I know this one! Bambi and horror films.
One of them is one that you get banned from watching by a SO because it's too disturbing and will mean you won't be able to sleep, and the other one is one you watch together with lots of wine and giggle the whole way through at the cliches, right?
Now remind me which is which?
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Date: 2010-12-14 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 10:29 pm (UTC)I'm still waiting for VM to offer every film ever, on demand, over their cable network. Seems like the obvious thing to do.
Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 05:17 pm (UTC)Yeah, I know, would be a hard life wouldn't it? Parental address/grotty digs where everything is lost is the normal scenario.
Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 05:18 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-14 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 09:12 pm (UTC)(Not impossible, of course.)
Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 09:42 pm (UTC)I think your VED reminder goes to the address on the car's V5 (ie registered keeper's address, and nothing to do with the address on anyone's driving licence). In addition, I think you can go to a PO and buy a tax disc without the reminder, and I don't think you have to give your address.
I don't remember ever putting my address on anything relating to an MOT.
Now I buy my tax discs online, I could believe they check the details. However, I suspect that historically it was perfectly possible to use different addresses for insurance, V5 and licence.
Plus, if you leave everything registered at an old address the cross checking wouldn't pick it up anyway :)
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Date: 2010-12-18 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-14 01:48 pm (UTC)Re: so long as they have the correct address
Date: 2010-12-13 04:36 pm (UTC)I certainly need to get mine sorted now I've moved to Kent, along with some refresher lessons, because although I passed my test in 6th form, and I've been listed as a second driver for our insurance for ages so I can theoretically drive if needs be, London traffic always scared the %^($( out of me - so getting refresher lessons wasn't a priority until we moved out!
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 05:15 pm (UTC)Can you guess how I did it?
*No submitting any two year old photos and pretending they were six month old ones for me!
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 05:41 pm (UTC)*I did have to post off my old paper license though, but I think that was the only part of the process that I couldn't do online.
(And I don't have any medical conditions that require DVLA notification, so I've no idea how long it would take to get a license that way if faffage were involved.)
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Date: 2010-12-13 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 05:23 pm (UTC)Though they do say "You can also notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of a change of address at the same time." so it is acknowledged (if still illegal) that people are a bit crap at it :)
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Date: 2010-12-13 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 05:45 pm (UTC)They also took the time to remove the 3 points that had expired some months before when they sent me my new licence, which was jolly nice of them :-)
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Date: 2010-12-13 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-13 11:18 pm (UTC)