In message , The Natural Philosopher
writes
On 05/10/14 23:52, Chris French wrote:
In message , Adrian
writes
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:29:15 +0100, Chris French wrote:

MOT, yes. But there's no explicit insurance check any more - either
online or in the PO (where you still need to take a paper MOT in - if
they check MID online, why not MOT too?).

Someone was taxing their car a few weeks ago in my local PO, he realised
he didn't have the MOT, but they weren't bothered about checking the
docs as 'the computer does it all'.

grabs V11 from last month

Yep, explicitly says I need to take MOT to PO... yet no mention of
insurance apart from to say that all drivers need to be insured.

Indeed, it still is a requirement to have the MOT, but it seems that at
least some PO's can do and online check.

Its not hard

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-status

Yes, I know, but that doesn't mean the system being used in a post
office for the tax renewal does that checking.

As I said our PO was changed last year, from a normal PO counter at the
back of the shop to a counter right next to the shop tills. (on the
whole a good thing IMO) As part of this they installed a new system to
deal with the transactions, maybe this does the MOT but those in older
PO's don't?




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Chris French