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Re: Please do not write below the line

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Post by stavros »

jvanderbot wrote: post #6

Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed. Though they knew this information when they sent it to the author, presumably it would be laborious to manually associate the same information with each returned letter (one would have to look it up anyway), so they probably print the data on the letter that may someday be returned, to allow quick lookup in the event it is…

> Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed.

But they didn't ask for the letter to be returned at all.

Re: Please do not write below the line

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Post by almostnormal »

IshKebab wrote: post #5

It's pretty obvious that they use this OCR system to track sent letters that don't expect a reply as well as forms you return and they've just used the same template in both cases.

Scanning the ones returned as undeliverable. Those would of course not have been opened and therefore nothing written on them.

Re: Please do not write below the line

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Post by froddd »

stavros wrote: post #11
jvanderbot wrote: post #6

Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed. Though they knew this information when they sent it to the author, presumably it would be laborious to manually associate the same information with each returned letter (one would have to look it up anyway), so they probably print the data on the letter that may someday be returned, to allow quick lookup in the event it is…

> Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed. But they didn't ask for the letter to be returned at all .

Undelivered letters could be returned to sender.

In which case… there would definitely be no need to instruct to not write anything below the line, as nobody would have opened the letter.

Re: Please do not write below the line

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Post by TillE »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #13

A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK. Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from government, which doesn't really exist in the UK anyway.

Re: Please do not write below the line

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Post by Zak »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #13

A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK. Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

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