Just paid my car tax. This operation involved the following steps:
- Remove documents from "Car Tax File"
- Take them to Post Office with cheque book
- Pay Tax
- Return Home with smug look on face and file documents and cheque book.
I suppose that the smug look stems from the fact that I can remember oh so well the days when paying the car tax was a major operation. Typically, the car would be in London, the cheque book in Yorkshire, the Certificate of Insurance in St Andrews and I would be in Dumfriesshire with no money. That smug look this afternoon represented nothing other than the vicarious pleasure of realising that one is a Grown Up at last.
why not thru the net dead easy
Through the net
Well, one reason is that the postal service here has been so poor that I prefer not to rely on it for important things. The Post Office just seemed the more efficient.
…and I have been known to support campaigns for keeping local Post Offices open, so I guess I ought to use one when it is right on my doorstep.
Oh, thanks for the reminder – mine is due too. I think I’ll try the net because I haven’t found the post office yet.