Driving Licence
Monday, August 17th, 2009 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanIt turns out that the placed I lived when I first came to London does not appear in the Royal Mail address database and therefore neither does it appear in the DVLC database. This is annoying since I can walk any interested party to the building and poibnt it out to them.
Now the upshot of this is that I cannot update my driving licence online. This is a pain.
I guess it's my own fault, the address on it is twenty years out of date, but since I haven't owned or indeed even driven a car in all that time, it never rweally bothered me. Unfortunately, it does seem to mean that I am now the forgotten driver and I am going to have to phone DVLC and ask what we do next. I expect they will say I should have updated the address every time I moved, but in the past twenty years, I have simply had no use for a car. I'm not sure I do now, but it is a little unfair to expect Furtle to drive us everywhere on the few occasions we hire a vehicle. I should at least share the chore. I am licenced to drive, no doubt about that, but hiring a car with an address that is 20+ years out of date is problematic (unless I am on a trip to the US where frankly, I could wave a piece of tast at the car hire people).
So, to get the new photo licence I have to make a phone call and probably get morte photos taken, instead of them just using those held by the passport people.
I've slipped through the system, people!
Now the upshot of this is that I cannot update my driving licence online. This is a pain.
I guess it's my own fault, the address on it is twenty years out of date, but since I haven't owned or indeed even driven a car in all that time, it never rweally bothered me. Unfortunately, it does seem to mean that I am now the forgotten driver and I am going to have to phone DVLC and ask what we do next. I expect they will say I should have updated the address every time I moved, but in the past twenty years, I have simply had no use for a car. I'm not sure I do now, but it is a little unfair to expect Furtle to drive us everywhere on the few occasions we hire a vehicle. I should at least share the chore. I am licenced to drive, no doubt about that, but hiring a car with an address that is 20+ years out of date is problematic (unless I am on a trip to the US where frankly, I could wave a piece of tast at the car hire people).
So, to get the new photo licence I have to make a phone call and probably get morte photos taken, instead of them just using those held by the passport people.
I've slipped through the system, people!