Late NIP!

Has anyone heard of NIPs being sent via recorded delivery?

A friend [1] has just received one that is dated October 2006 for an
offence in October 2006 but was sent recorded signed for delivery and
arrived today (also postmarked last few days). He therefore has proof
it was sent 2 months late!

[1] Not me this time. got 3 points/£60 about 2 weeks ago though.

 

ST () gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

Key question - is his name and address on the V5 - or is it a lease company
or similar? If he ISN'T on it, all bets are off, because that's where it'll
have gone to first.

 

It is his home address (personally owned car).

 

What constitutes 'late'?

 

Late = not sent within the usual 14 day limit (+ postage time) after
offence. My main point was
is it heard of to use recorded delivery after the 14 day limit has
passed?

 

Ahh right. I didn't know about the 14 day limit.

 

ST says...

It all depends if this is the first NIP they have sent out to him for
this offence. If it is, then they can get fucked, cos you have proof
that it was sent out by them after the required 14 day period. If they
claim they sent one within that 14 days and then this one because he
didn't respond to the first then he's fucked, cos there's no way you can
prove they didn't.

Are you sure this isn't a second request, I had a similar case a few
years ago which turned out bad for me, google for "my day in court".

Also, is this the Ipswich Ticket Office? They are a right royal bunch of
cunts there.

 

Lozzo says...

Bad form etc

I googled for you just to be sure what happened

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread
/da9881103f3d23af/e2539c0500e716ec?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1
&hl=en#e2539c0500e716ec

 

You're not wrong there!
I fix their computers (unfortunaly!) and they hide their office from
everyone. Very hard to find, even if you have the address! They are dead
scared of reprisals and *really* don't like opening the door to anyone.
Like fucking Fort Knox inside, with swipe cards everywhere!
I don't go there too often thank God.


Pssst, want to know where they are? ;o)
--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 96 cu-in (Written off after 3 days & 182 miles!) Courtesy of a
myopic female driver.
FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II (Arrived! but not registered yet!)
Trumpet Trophy 1200 -96, (The Barge) for rainy days.

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Greybeard says...

As it is a publicly funded office I had every right to go there to check
if a ticket was sent out to me. Unfortunately I was standing in the dock
when I found this out.

 

Can you actually go there?
I must admit, I've never seen anybody from the public there at the actual
offices. There are no signs anywhere about to say what office it is?
Couldn't find any signs of blood on the wails or carpets either! ;o)
--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 96 cu-in (Written off after 3 days & 182 miles!) Courtesy of a
myopic female driver.
FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II (Arrived! but not registered yet!)
Trumpet Trophy 1200 -96, (The Barge) for rainy days.

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Greybeard says...

I am allowed to go there to gather evidence that they didn't send an NIP
out, but that would prove impossible because they don't send them
recorded or registered delivery. If anyone does go there it'd just to be
a nuisance. I think more people should, just to take up a lot more of
their time and slow things down.

 

Surely they would keep a record of when it was sent, which would be
admissible?

 

Higgins@work says...

You're having a laugh, surely.

 

I got my son off when he got a NIP for attempting wheelies on his scooter a
couple of years ago. It arrived after the 14 day period. I ended up
speaking with the copper who booked him (got his registration number but
didn't stop him, hence the NIP). It turned out that his station had run out
of stamps so they didn't send the information out to the office that sends
the NIPs until it was too late. He thought it was quite amusing - I
promised to give the lad a bollocking (duly administered - "don't do
wheelies in the vicinity of police patrol cars") and it all ended amicably.

 

Agreed.
They seem to hide well there. A _real_ strange bunch of misfits work there
as well!
Thank God I don't go there very often as it's not on my normal patch.
--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 96 cu-in (Written off after 3 days & 182 miles!) Courtesy of a
myopic female driver.
FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II (Arrived! but not registered yet!)
Trumpet Trophy 1200 -96, (The Barge) for rainy days.

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Inside the money box?
--
Greybeard

FLHTCUI UK-07 96 cu-in (Written off after 3 days & 182 miles!) Courtesy of a
myopic female driver.
FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II (Arrived! but not registered yet!)
Trumpet Trophy 1200 -96, (The Barge) for rainy days.

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Well, I'll acknowledge that I'm talking about theory.

 

Fook, looking at the news, looks like someone found out where the DVLA
was ....

P.