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TV Licencing
I am, at this moment, mightily - and irrationally - annoyed with the TV Licensing people.
It’s not that the TV licence itself is a bad thing (if it keeps me in Doctor Who and QI then I’m more than happy to pay it) but that the TV Licensing organisation is apparently run by idiots.
We have, naturally enough, a TV licence. However, it is - as it has been since before I moved in with him - in the flatmate’s name and we have seen no reason to change this whatsoever.
But over the last year I have had no fewer than five letters from TV Licensing demanding that I get a TV licence because I’ve purchased some piece of equipment (the last one being a freeview box) and they have no record of me having a licence at this address.
And each time I have responded with a telephone call pointing out the existing licence code which covers our house and they have gone “oh, okay” and shut up for a bit.
But because of the Freeview box I have had yet another letter and I have to admit I’ve kind of got fed up with them. Perhaps it’s because I’m in a sort of computers and database solutions capacity myself but I honestly don’t understand why they find it so difficult to remember that someone else is linked to the address. All it would take would be a couple of additional fields in the database, after all.
But no, apparently it’s easier to assume everyone’s a criminal and treat them as such, which kind of annoys the merry heck out of me.
I feel a little persecuted to be honest and suspect I am dangerously close to being very ratty next time I ring them up…
Posted on May 22, 2008 | Filed Under My So-Called Life
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