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I was sent a letter asking me to pay the license, which gave a number to phone if I had no TV receiving equipment on my premises. I phoned the number to express said fact, and was just met with rudeness and disbelief.

The vast majority of people may have a TV, but that is no reason to hound those of us who don't. I contemplated taking a massive shit in one of the envelopes they sent me and posting it back to them to express my opinion of their tactics, but decided against it.

It's scaremongering, pure and simple. Automatically sending official looking, threatening sounding letters to people is easier than doing any actual detecting or work or anything, because most people will be scared of them and pay up!
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 14:05, Reply)