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Martin Rich · February 10th 04, 08:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:43:10 GMT, (Nigel) wrote:

Does anyone know what information the bar-code on the new style Tax
Discs stores and who has access to reading the code.

If you get a tax disc at a post office, the counter attendant scans
the bar code before giving you the disc. When I got my new bar-coded
and starred tax disc I was surprised to be given my renewal form back
with the disc. So it would appear that scanning the bar-code is used
for some sort of record keeping, which was previously achieved by
retaining the renewal form.

Incidentally, something that I'd often wondered, and somebody here
might know. Do the London bus operators (and, for that matter,
anybody else with a big fleet of vehicles) just send somebody down to
the post office every month with a whole pile of tax disc renewal
forms and a company cheque? Or is there some more streamlined process
for bulk renewal?

Martin