> Alas and alack!
>
> I've just received a billet doux from the
> Northumbria Police Fixed Penalty Unit! :-(
>
> Photographed at 38 mph! Seeking driver identity? Gosh!
>
> At a location I can only guess at, going by the location
> stated in the notice. Somewhere north of Dover...
>
> It most probably was a fair cop but remembering back to
> the day, it appears to be in an area where there was a
> dearth of speed limiting signs and the general populace
> had not, up to then, enlightened me to the de facto
> relationship of street lights to the 30 mph limit. :-(
>
> Dire threats of financial retribution and removal of points
> etc enclosed together with FAQs!
>
> Having a "foreign" licence, see Q18, means that this matter
> will dealt with by the Beck..
>
> My only real query about all this, is the average bureaucrat
> in the UK so tired, that instead of folding these A4 missives
> twice, only once is the case and consequently a far larger
> envelope is required?
>
Such enormous volumes of them are produced that the entire process is automated. Hence no folds.
John