By not having any ID?

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I'm hiring a car tomorrow and I need ID in addition to my driving licence, the new DVLA print out part and a credit card with £2,000 available limit.

The ID has to be a letter from a utility supplier - dated within eight weeks, posted not printed from online docs, not council tax or bank, and obviously in my name not a cohabitee's name.

FFS! I actually cannot do it!

We have had exactly the same problem. Now DH and I have little personal bank accounts that we use for little personal purchases and both have monthly bank statements sent to us. Our main account is paperless. We don't have monthly utility statements though, and most are in my name not DH's (and he's the one likely to be hiring a car!).

Annoying when we get discounts to not have paper billing.

I may be being thick, but what does terrorism have to do with it? Having an electricity bill doesn't mean you're not going to do something awful with the hire car. And I don't think the perpetrator's identity was in any doubt in any of the recent attacks.

I realise this is probably the reason the hire companies give, but I just don't see the link.

Gee Whizz! Where are you hiring from and what are you trying to hire? A Bugatti Veyron?! I hire cars fairly often and all they ask for is driving licence and £200 deposit which is refunded (provided you don't damage the vehicle obviously) - nothing flash just Ford Mondeo's usually but nonetheless £25K cars (brand new as they don't hire out anything more than a year old)

Why do airport security ask people to remove their shoes and does it really stop shoe bombs?

I wish it was a Bugatti Veyron! Alas it's a Nissan Quashqai! In Ireland!

YES! I've managed to rub out the 'not posted' lettering, so it's good to go!

Thank you!

Its a right pain but is one of the reasons we still have paper bank statements.

Glad you could rub out the lettering!

You could also try going to the branch of your local bank and getting a statement printed out, then have it stamped and signed by a cashier. I've done this in the past for various things and its been fine.

Good luck with it

Were I work, we have similar although a bit less strict requirements but we do sometimes have to compromise as some people just can't provide it.

I can kind of get that online evidence isn't ideal because it can be doctored (ahem), but no bank statements or council tax bills is daft, although I didn't have either of those either. My council tax statement comes once a year in April and banking, like everything else, is online.

You can walk into district council offices and request a copy council tax demand and it will have today’s date in it

I hired a van a few weeks ago and took my wage slip with me as proof of address, would that work?

Not sure if it would work in this case but you can get a bank statement printed off and stamped in branch which most companies will accept. For opening bank accounts etc new guidelines in the UK allow banks to accept pdfs downloaded from internet banking sites for this. Ireland may be different though.

We hired a car in France a couple of months ago and they didn't even want the DVLA code that we had printed up, never mind any ID apart from passport and driving licence (the latter of course has your address on).

Just make sure you have it definitely sorted and their acceptance in writing before you need the car. Cautionary tale: My DH had his credit card refused by Hertz at Heathrow earlier this year (we live abroad). They wouldn’t accept his foreign card or his UK one and they wouldn’t speak to me on the phone to give them another card number. It was after midnight, trains finished, no hotels near airport had a room (I called 20 for him) as there had been some flight cancellations so everything booked up. We were very unimpressed with Hertz especially as he has been a member of their loyalty club for 20 years and is a regular customer. He was basically stranded. In the end I had to wake up a relative on the other side of London and ask if he could stay. Lucky they were home. He was on his way to visit his terminally ill father and didn’t fancy a night on the streets.

That's appalling!

I'd be buggered even if I had a driving licence!
All our utility bills are in DH's name.
I have noticed in recent years, the requests for ID have been getting more and more insistent so to speak - I don't have a driving licence, but have recently "had" to get a passport (and jump through the most ridiculous hoops since I have never had one before) because I bought tickets to take DD to see "Hamilton" - they will NOT admit anyone who doesn't have a "Government Approved Photo ID" apparently, and when I emailed to query what was acceptable they basically said "no driver's licence or passport, tough shit, you are not getting in"!!!
I can't be the only person in the country not to have a driving licence or a passport can I? It was, to put it mildly, a right fuck on, just to go a theatre in London - it's not like I was even going abroad but I suppose at least I have the damn thing now even though my photo looks like a serial killer

I don't even have a credit card - only a debit card.

I am from a country which issues ID cards (with a photo) and it always baffled me how you get on with your life in the U.K. If you don't have a driving license or a passport. Surely not everyone drives and not everyone travels abroad.
How do you open a bank account ?
How come a utility bill is an ID but a council tax bill is not?

I frequently hire cars at the airport in Ireland ( Dublin and Cork) for work and have never had to give proof of address, just photo I'd ( I use passport as I have just flown there so have it on me) and driving license.
Which rental company is it?

Argus. They bloody better ask to see it! I'm showing it anyway whether they ask for it or not!

You can just request copy of your latest bank statement. I can do this online and it arrives within a couple of days.