After our Phone Interviews yesterday, we went
to the Centrelink office inn Ringwood today
to prove my Identity. Along with my ATM Card, I took my driver’s Licence as the
second identity item, to make up the required 100 points needed, to prove my
identity.
For a while it didn’t look like she was going
to accept my driver’s licence as it turns out it expired in the first week in
February this year.
As I was wondering to myself why I hadn’t received
a renewal notice, I turned it over to make sure that I had our Currant address on
it, when it was pointed out to me that when I had it changed about 14
months ago, a major mistake had been made with the address. Whilst they got the
unit number and street number, and even the suburb and post code right, they
had only put down half of the street name.
Thus they only had on my licences all the other information, but where
the street name was required, all they had down was: “The”. Instead of; “The
Pass”.
So after finishing with Centrelink, I then had
to go over to Burwood and get it both renewed and the address corrected. I know
that a lot of people complain about the delays and service at Government offices
etc these days, but I only have praise for Vic Roads on today’s experience.
Although there were a lot of people there, I
was served very quickly and pleasantly. The Lady also laughed when she saw the
partial address, and upon checking her computer remarked that the Renewal
notice had been returned, and laughing and with a grin "a mile wide" asked,
“I wonder why?” Anyway to cut a long
story short, I paid my money, had my photo taken, and in around 10-days, will
get my new driver’s Licence e for the next 10 years.
So all is right
again and I am again driving legally, but it just made me wonder though how
carefully we all check things, as I have had that Change of address sticker on
my Licence for over a year now and never picked up the mistake till now. What
important things do you now need to
check that all the details are correct?
