Pay your fine but avoid the points!

[MsEVP]

You`ve got a fixed penalty notice thru the post which carries penalty points. The computer system first sends you a demand for cash. When you`ve paid it, it then sends a demand to return your licence for endorsement. It can`t handle the licence endorsement and the payment at the same time & it can`t process the points part of the system till financial section is complete. If you OVERPAY the fixed penalty, it must issue & send a refund cheque for the overpayment. So, OVERPAY the fixed penalty by sending a cheque for the full amount plus �1. The computer will then automatically generate a refund cheque for the overpayment and send it to you. Do NOT cash this cheque and the system remains open and can`t generate the `send your licence for endorsement` demand part of the program. It does, however, record your payment of fixed penalty, so it doesn`t trigger the `followup unpaid fine` stage. As there is no human intervention, the system will leave you alone, since it has got your money which is the primary objective!

[whifffey]

That sounds BRILLIANT, well done, does it work?

Serve the bureaucratic sods right.

[barry1010]

Utter tosh.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/t/tickets .htm

You have to send your licence with your payment in any case.

[barry1010]

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/ticket.asp

[paraffin]

Besides, if you play the prat and get caught later on, they'll only hammer you even more.

[grasscarp]

You say it cant handle the endorsement and payment at the same time. This is not true. The letter received at this address very recently, but not to me, was for the payment and the licence to be returned together.

[hc4361]

It's a very old one that been doing the rounds for years. Started in America, I think.