Photo licence issue - a surprise!

[John A]

Turns out the little PO round the corner on the shopping parade is designated. If I'd known that before it'd have saved a lot of fuss, including fighting with the photo booth instructions in Tesco. Shades of the "Hamlet" man!

Post Office website has a helpful search function just for this:

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/identity/r ... ng-licence

[Andym]

Did mine (suspending the HGV licence I never use) at a photo booth. Tell it you want one to official spec, enter an e-mail address, get photos, download and write link details on DVSA form. Simple enough even though being light of 12-quid was annoying (another reason to drop the HGV and only do it every ten years, no medical).

Andy

[knight2]

Yes Knight, that was a good way to do it. If you're 70 or over you won't be asked ever again to renew the photo from what they told me. There are some advantages to being an old git! Yippee!!

Not quite right I'm 74 and renewed my photo last August.
Just looked at that Post office thing £21 seems a bit expensive cost me £12 for the photos and that's it. Just entered Sheffield on that PO site and apparently I can get it done at the local childrens hospital, thats weird.

[Data]

Yes Knight, that was a good way to do it. If you're 70 or over you won't be asked ever again to renew the photo from what they told me. There are some advantages to being an old git! Yippee!!

Not quite right I'm 74 and renewed my photo last August.
Just looked at that Post office thing £21 seems a bit expensive cost me £12 for the photos and that's it. Just entered Sheffield on that PO site and apparently I can get it done at the local childrens hospital, thats weird.

Hi Knight. Just to avoid confusion. The new licence renewal changes have only recently come in this year. They said anyone who has just renewed their licence photo & is 70 or over will never be asked to renew their photo again. So if your photo had expired & you renewed it, you won't now ever need to renew it again. Just renew your licence in the usual way. Of course it's probably different if it's a commercial licence. But I didn't go there with DVLA. It's DVLA, not the DVSA as someone mentioned earlier.

[knight2]

Thanks for that, I was alittle confused when I got my renewal because I didn't think I would need to renew the photo. But it was easy to do so no problem.
It's not a HGV licence I had that removed as soon as I retired. No temption to go back to work now, still miss driving artics though.

[Data]

Thanks for that, I was alittle confused when I got my renewal because I didn't think I would need to renew the photo. But it was easy to do so no problem.
It's not a HGV licence I had that removed as soon as I retired. No temption to go back to work now, still miss driving artics though.

Knight, you mention this thing called "work". What is this? I have vague recollections of this word from many years ago but never ever found out much about it!

[knight2]

Work, it was one of those stupid irresponsible things I got into as a teenager it took me years to kick the habit. Managed it in the end and now it is a fading memory