Why the F should I tell BBC every year that I don’t watch TV ?

Aslong as you don’t watch BBC, IPlayer or anything live on any channel then go online and cancel it. We cancelled ours couple of years ago. We still get a letter every now and then asking if we still don’t need one but we just bin those letters

@beAsensible1 im not telling them anything . Ever

What did they say when you pointed that out to them?

tell them over the phone and don’t give your name. You don’t have to

@Rosesfornoses thats the problem really, people are abusing it and therefore everyone is assumed to be, even when they are not.

Ask to be removed from their mailing lists. Stop paying. Put the letters in the bin. You can literally just ignore them. I haven't paid for 12 years

You’re missing out on some great shows. Fully worth the money.

It's a pita but it's once a year, about 2 minutes of your time and you are frothed up enough to spend 2 minutes on here moaning about it and reading replies which will take longer still?🙄
Slag me off if you want peeps but it really isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

Same her and it drives me insane! The email treats you like you’re an absolute idiot that can’t possibly not need a license, how they get away with these heavy handed tactics I’ll never understand. Can you imagine getting that level of intrusive correspondence from Netflix or Prime because you didn’t subscribe to their services.

You can declare NLN but they then have your details. Which is why I have not declared. I have been Getting letters every month for years and just bin them. I dont watch live TV or iplayer
they won’t implement a subscription service as they know it would lose them billions

My mum does not even have a TV.
Maybe I also count as one of these elderly women (I am 52), I never watch terrestrial channels.

Why are you guys opening these letters? I told them once 5 years ago and get letters periodically. Not monthly

Somebody told me that they never’watch’ the BBC and then proceeded to boast that their child had learned math skills watching Number Blocks. I had also visited their house when their youngest was watching wall to wall, Alpha Blocks. I look after my grandchildren three days a week and they watch lots of CBeebies and CBBC. The BBC provision for children is world class.
I know they use the programmes in my grandchildren’s primary schools.
It seems mean to use BBC resources and not pay for a licence. I know BBC Bitesize is free on line and I would hate to think that the BBC could no longer fund such valuable resource for young people.

Okay, this is a good point. Nobody in our house watches BBC or iPlayer and I need to cut costs. I am literally paying this so I don’t get hounded but it sounds like I need to go online and submit the declaration and keep it up to date.

Its long past time the Biased Broadcastkng Corporation became a subscription service.
In this day and age people should not be forced to pay for something they dont want and dont use. I keep telling DP to cancel the licence but he wont 😬

So when they come for a “home visit” unannounced, you just tell them to fuck off. They have the power to do absolutely nothing.

Eh? Why is it any harder or more costly for the BBC itself to keep a record of who doesn’t have to pay?

Out of interest, who are these elderly women who never watch the BBC or other terrestrial channels? Most older people I know watch a lot of TV. My Mum doesn't have a smart TV so can't watch any streamed services, nor would she want to. The TV licence is money well spent for her as she finds quite a lot of interest to watch, which is fortunate now she is more or less housebound and very deaf, so can't listen to the radio.

Your cancellation will have counted as your declaration. If you had left it a year the letters would have started coming demanding that you submit a new declaration.

It is a charge per household. If it was collected alongside council tax by local authorities, I am sure each council could keep a record of those who don't need to pay that would not need to be updated. Would also save a lot in the cost of collection, which could be passed on in a reduced licence fee.

We had this thread a couple of weeks ago. I despise the BBC and their bullying threatening tactics. I no longer reply to those emails and bin the letters.
A little old lady like my mum however would be seriously stressed by those letters and a ball of anxiety over a threatened visit, she doesn't even have email!
They need to drag theirselves into the 21st century.
I once had one of their heavies try to force his way into my home when I was a a sleep deprived single parent with a baby, putting his foot in my door to stop me closing it.
I vowed there and then I'd never use their services and never have.
Now, I'd actually welcome a visit from one of those knuckle draggers because I would verbally destroy him (or just not answer the door depending on my mood that day 😂)

I haven’t found this at all. I cancelled mine for the first time in June because there was nothing on iplayer we watched at that time. Had a notification email that I’d cancelled and then nothing else at all for the next 3 months. Started it up last week for celebrity traitors!

That’s a really good idea.

It's the left that wants to keep the licence fee, Reform want to get rid of it.

It is outrageous, but I just stick all the letters back in the post with ‘Return To Sender’ on them. At least that means Capital has to pay for getting them back 😂