I don’t know if your really aware Simmo that/what these people do......
Your/my name are totally irrelevent to them but your address is certainly not and if there's an history of someone paying a licence from the said address they want to know why its not being paid now!! (and lets be perfectly candid about it there are a lot of people who don't/wont pay if they can get away with it)
Its like the poll tax (council tax) they reckon there’s about half a million people gone missing in the south Glamorgan postal area alone...single parent families who fail to register that they have adults living at home so therefore only need to pay 75% of the costs.... they fail to fill in census forms to... So these can no longer vote and obviously because their gone missing the tax becomes higher for those that have got to pay it.....
So if you take this figure and multiply ex number of times representing different areas throughout Britain this then gives wrong figures to/of the number of people actually living in the U/K and upsets the democratic process too as these people can't vote .... so it all has got a relevance and the government collates these figures drawn from different taxes (if you term the t/v licence as a tax? which I certainly do its on a par with vat, you pay it, if you want it or any commodity, bar basic food which of course is excluded)
But going back to the t/v licence yes I suppose on its own you could switch off your t/v but that’s only part of the equation as I have tried to explain here, history counts for a lot? With regards payments over the years.. and these detector vans don’t just work 9 until 5 you know as you are aware people do go out to work and only view television in the evening, and as stated not all want to pay it, especially for some of the muck they now send out ….
I have stated on here many times, I have a hobby radio communications and I know for a fact that there is an office in Cardiff that monitors all frequencies to see if pirate radio is on air and many other things too, I have the same communications receiver has they use (so big brother is here to stay mate regardless of what you think?) so detector vans are just a cog in the wheel so to speak..
