We arrived home yesterday arvo from a trip to SA. I was going through the accumulated mail and found one from RMS. Thinking it would likely be my box trailer rego I opened it to find a letter stating my caravan number plate had been handed in and the rego cancelled.
Now I knew damn well the plate was still on my caravan. The thought that we had been travelling with an unregistered caravan for a few days worried me enough to get on the phone after an online rego check resulted in a "no find" for my plate number.
It seems someone handed in a Victorian plate (to NSWRMS) with the same letter/number combination BUT the "clerk"(jerk) who processed the transaction did it as a NSW plate.
A very lovely sounding Aussie lady at NSWRMS did some research and contacted the registry where the plate was handed in and sorted it out for me in around 10 minutes.
Another online check and my van is registered again.
Phew, that was easy. I had fears I was going to be in for a tough time explaining I still had the plate so it could NOT have been handed in.
sometimes things work out OK. Glad we did not have any incidents though while the van was "not registered"
Frank
-- Edited by KFT on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 04:02:11 PM
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How close to a disaster was that KFC. Too close for comfort really. I sure hope it is of legal height though. We can't have NSWRMS climbing ladders to see your plate, now can we
Good to see you made it back home safely and now settled down. You will have plenty of time for the more important stuff in life now.....this forum
Keep Safe my friend.
Edit.......geeze mate, I even stayed on topic for ya.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Tuesday 5th of April 2016 04:38:47 PM
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Hi Frank. WA are just as bad. Our rego and drivers license bills are sent to us on-line and we pay by BPay or DD - its worked fine up to this year.
Then I got a snail mail letter saying I had failed to pay to rego for the van and I had 20 days to pay or hand the plates in. No email or snail mail bill.
Paid it on-line and got a downloaded email receipt - as no paper windo sticker to prove now days.
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Rego mob can be funny people at times. I live in canberra, bought a caravan with nsw rego/plates. Took plates and relevant papers to rego office in Queanbeyan NSW to hand in plates and for rego refund. Was refused on the basis that I did not have enough proof of identity. The sales document from the dealer had my full middle name as "william"BUT my photo drivers license and other cards (VISA, Medicare, pension card etc) all had only the initial "W". Apparantly "W" was not proof enough for "William". They would not budge and I was refused a refund. However if and when I mailed COPIES of the relevant documents to their office in Wagga with a covering letter (no other proof of identity) I would be given a refund. Go figure.
My grandfather got a parking ticket at Melbourne Airport 6 months after he died. Turkey didn't write the state on the ticket. The airport has interstate registered vehicles due to car rentals being dropped off. Took seconds to fix it up as Airport Admin knew exactly what would have happened. Common occurrence.
A Pom wrote a new registration system for a major car manufacturer. In the UK, there is no STATE as part of a rego plate so he didn't include state. Even some Australians who were supposed to have reviewed the system didn't pick it up. I picked it up hours before the new system was launched but was told it didn't matter. Would be the next system update. Within hours an Albury dealer tried to register two vehicles with same rego - one VIC & one NSW. All hell broke loose.
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Rego mob can be funny people at times. I live in canberra, bought a caravan with nsw rego/plates. Took plates and relevant papers to rego office in Queanbeyan NSW to hand in plates and for rego refund. Was refused on the basis that I did not have enough proof of identity. The sales document from the dealer had my full middle name as "william"BUT my photo drivers license and other cards (VISA, Medicare, pension card etc) all had only the initial "W". Apparantly "W" was not proof enough for "William". They would not budge and I was refused a refund. However if and when I mailed COPIES of the relevant documents to their office in Wagga with a covering letter (no other proof of identity) I would be given a refund. Go figure.
When your Centrelink and all legal documents have your full name as something like Charles William SMITH but everyone knows you as Bill (and you only answer to Bill as Charles is your father's name), life can get difficult. My mum and father-in-law are both in that situation and since I've been handling mum's affairs after dad passed on, it's not easy.
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I had something like this happin with the ACT rego of my campervan a decade or so back
Someone drilled out the rivets for the rear numberplate - I reported the theft to the ACT police and they said that it would also go thru to ACT Rego. They also advised the price for a replacement number plate ... I surmised that this was a common issue & they were being helpful giving me the price for a new plate
I decided to make up a laser printed "plate" of the same size etc, till I got my next rego renewal and would get the new plate at the same time & in the meantime I continued my travelling around SE Oz, covering territory from Adelaide to Newcastle with the ACT as my home base
8 months later, no rego renewal papers were received in the post, so I had to go chasing them -- to be told by ACT Rego that the vehicle rego had been cancelled 8 months previously when the stolen plate was recovered on a stolen vehicle
At no stage was I informed that the stolen plate had been recovered, nor was I informed that any move was afoot to cancel the vehicle's rego, nor did I receive any refund for the unused portion of the annual rego payment after its cancellation ~ which would have alerted me to the error
So I was driving an "unregistered" vehicle all over SE Oz for months on end, with no knowledge of it being "unregistered" Despite letters to the ACT Rego mob, to the ACT Minister responsible and to the local paper, nothing came of it and I never received an apology for the stuff up
I truly hate to think of the legal ramifications should anything major have gone wrong during that "unregistered" period
sorry Frank - Doug FORCED me to do it ...... I went 
