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Sept 3, 2016 16:48:27 GMT
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As per the title, can anyone remember if you could you buy road tax through the post in the 1980s?
Just doing some period details on my van and used the "tax in post" excuse sign in my holder but suddenly thought could you actually buy it through the post back then?
Cheers
Phil
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Sept 3, 2016 17:17:07 GMT
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yes
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Sept 3, 2016 17:36:34 GMT
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Great cheers  |
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Sept 3, 2016 17:37:11 GMT
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The 'tax in post' excuse goes back further than the 80s. |
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Sept 3, 2016 17:41:15 GMT
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You had to go to a local LVLO and tax over the counter as Post Office didn't offer the service otherwise it was done via post. Even older system was when the old green "log books" were in use that it had to be stamped to confirm tax had been paid.  |
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Sept 3, 2016 17:55:58 GMT
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You had to go to a local LVLO and tax over the counter as Post Office didn't offer the service otherwise it was done via post. Even older system was when the old green "log books" were in use that it had to be stamped to confirm tax had been paid. Hi, 'CROWN' or main Post offices could issue disc's and then increasingly local ones. Colin |
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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2016 17:56:53 GMT by colnerov
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Sept 3, 2016 17:57:49 GMT
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They used to get pinched alot as well , i can remember our one form the white tank aka the maxi being pinched .
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Sept 3, 2016 18:00:23 GMT
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Yeah, motorbikes were particularly vulnerable.
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Rob M
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Sept 3, 2016 18:01:37 GMT
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The 'tax in post' excuse goes back further than the 80s. It does, infact if you were a bit posh you used to write 'Tax applied for' |
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Sept 3, 2016 18:44:30 GMT
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Yep,i used the Tax applied for once,lived in Harrogate so was a bit posh  What i also did more successully was carry my docs and have them on the front seat,twice i got off by telling a copper i was just on my way to do it waving the paperwork in my hand ! |
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Sept 3, 2016 19:03:38 GMT
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Ha ha i got off not having tax as a kid in the 90s on my golf gti , some truly spectacular fibbing . A traffic warden asked me about my tax being expired . I explained it had been off the road and i was just going to get some . She seemed to buy that and i thought i was clear . She happened to glance up the road and a copper was coming !!!
Oh christ i thought , I'm getting done here . She called him over and i repeated what i had said before . Why was it off the road then he asked ?
Well the gearbox was broken . Do you have reciept for a new one ? No . Why not ? I got it from a scrap yard .
I think by now he was getting annoyed so he just told me to get it taxed and peiss off !
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I seem to recall Del boy's Reliant Robin van permanently displayed the 'tax in post' in the windscreen, along with a 'midwife on call' |
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Brigsy
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Sept 4, 2016 12:08:19 GMT
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Beermat in the window with "tax in post" scribbled on it, those were the days
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bortaf
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Sept 4, 2016 13:42:06 GMT
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Pa! tax in post? Naaa, if you grew up on a "decent" council estate in the 70's like what i did, you changed to a new beermat that was the same colour as that years tax disc, my dads old maxi had a beermat collection in the glove box that would match any brewery museum nowdays  he was like james bond with all differant passports, sept he had beermats  |
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R.I.P photobucket
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Sept 4, 2016 18:37:19 GMT
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In the late 80s someone local managed to obtain a tax disc with just 'MINI' written on it, a trip to the library and lots of 10pences (colour copies were expensive) most of the Mini owners on the south cost had the same copied disc with their own reg number written on. the copies were quite poor quality but to my knowledge no one got done for having one.
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Sept 4, 2016 19:12:33 GMT
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I think the books they came in were often grabbed when post offices were robbed as well ! Like a massive book of £50 notes !
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Del
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Sept 4, 2016 20:49:58 GMT
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I once bought a tax disc holder that had 'Tax Applied For' pre-printed, so that showed when there was no disc in it.
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Sept 5, 2016 17:31:22 GMT
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I think the books they came in were often grabbed when post offices were robbed as well ! Like a massive book of £50 notes ! i bought a landrover in the early 90's with rent in the window, never checked the disc(who did?) got carted off by police one day with taped interview etc as disc was stolen from mail train, the stamped location on it never even existed!!!! |
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Sept 5, 2016 17:41:03 GMT
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I think the books they came in were often grabbed when post offices were robbed as well ! Like a massive book of £50 notes ! i bought a landrover in the early 90's with rent in the window, never checked the disc(who did?) got carted off by police one day with taped interview etc as disc was stolen from mail train, the stamped location on it never even existed!!!! I had similar,bought a Talbot Samba from a dealers lot with three months rent,drove it til it ran out and only then noticed the disc was off a Lada. My luck ran out when i needed to get up the A1 to work one winter morning and the battery was dead in my Celica RA61.I had a tested and insured MK2 Escort on the drive and no time to mess about swapping batteries or jumping so swapped the rent from the Celica into the Escort and got caught when i parked at work.Bit embarassing as the young copper was a bit keen and i got arrested in front of my staff ! Only had to pay back tax though,they didn't go through with tax disc fraud ! |
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Sept 6, 2016 19:27:41 GMT
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Hi, The trick in that situation is if you get stopped or you park it up unattended then remove the disc, it was better to get done for no tax rather than the wrong one.
Colin
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he was like james bond with all differant passports, sept he had beermats 
