Great to know the country's premium automated stealth-tax collection site doesn't do what it says on the front page. Oh sorry, the recently new DVLA farce. If you have a vehicle to shell out for, don't make any changes on-line, as you are then locked out for 5 working days (yep, weekends not included) while the system automatically (yep, " automatically " - you can tell its a civil service 'service', as it apparently realises when it's the weekend and doesn't work then) updates. The DVLA themselves can't do anything for you, so you have to drag out to a Post Office (preferably one than hasn't been closed by this or the previous Government). Why the organ grinders have to send you to the moneys is beyond me! Oh, and the highwaymen at DVLA will also charge you £2.50 to use a credit card. And I love the message on the TOTALLY AUTOMATED PAYMENT phone system " all calls will be recorded for training and monitoring purposes " - I wo...
On my soapbox again!