I got a nice surprise in the mail today.
It was a dunning letter from a company called Euro Parking Collection plc relating to a Dartford Crossing made by a certain Morgan Plus 4 on the 24th May. A nice fine of £70 plus the charge of £2.50 all written in Italian, complete with photos, and a conversion to €88.43 to pay.
Arriving more than 4 months after the event my first reaction was "oh bugger I must have forgotten to pay it" , but Alis reminded me that I had paid it the same day and, in fact, had problems with the web payment that made me quite nervous and involved several attempts to make the payment. I the remembered that I had left the acknowledgement of payment page open until I received the email receipt.
From that point it was child's play to find the receipt, save it as a PDF and then fill in the on-line form and send it to EPCplc.
The point is that this should a) not have been necessary, and b) if they thought I had not paid I should have been advised in a much more timely manner.
Then again perhaps this was an attempt to boost government funds with a hidden Brexit charge on EU registered vehicles
The moral of the story is that if you pay any UK Government charges on-line make sure that you keep the receipt or you may be in for a nasty surprise
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