{"id":1574,"date":"2006-07-20T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T08:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/07\/no_tv_licences\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T08:14:51","slug":"no_tv_licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/no_tv_licences\/","title":{"rendered":"No TV Licences At Post Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvlicensing.co.uk\/waystopay\/postoffice.jsp\">news<\/a> seems to have escaped me. For some reason, from the end of this month, you&#8217;ll no longer be able to buy your TV Licence from a Post Office. Instead, aside from all the various direct debit options, you&#8217;ll have to use a PayPoint location. The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/moneybox\/5161042.stm\">reasons given<\/a> include that there are more PayPoint locations than Post Offices, but it&#8217;s the loss of services like this from the Post Office that&#8217;s only sharpening their decline.<br \/>\nSomehow I find transactions to be slightly safer at the controlled environs of a Post Office, rather than using one those beaten up yellow machines that your local corner shop has connected to the PayPoint network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news seems to have escaped me. For some reason, from the end of this month, you&#8217;ll no longer be able to buy your TV Licence from a Post Office. Instead, aside from all the various direct debit options, you&#8217;ll have to use a PayPoint location. The reasons given include that there are more PayPoint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}