Duplicate TV Licensing Threatograms

For some people, there are few things more annoying than TV Licensing's monthly threatograms.

Many recipients of these caustic missives have actually gone to the trouble of informing TV Licensing of their circumstances, despite being under no legal obligation to do so. It must be doubly irritating for them to receive a second copy of the same unwarranted threats and innuendo.

This month, for whatever reason, it would appear that TV Licensing has distributed duplicate threatograms to a lot of households. Given the widespread social media commentary on the issue, we estimate that thousands of addresses have been affected.

In an ironic twist, many properties have also received an unnecessary second copy of TV Licensing's glossy leaflet promoting the environmental benefits of paper-free TV licences.

The TV Licensing contractor responsible for printing and distributing threatograms is Communisis. It is not the first time the quality of Communisis' work has come into question. Around this time last year a print failure at Communisis put thousands of TV Licensing threatograms into circulation without the correct postage paid markings on the envelopes. Due to Communisis' ineptitude, the recipients of these letters had to pay a £2 Royal Mail surcharge for the privilege of being threatened in their own homes.

We have asked the BBC for more information about TV Licensing threatogram print errors, which we shall publish in due course.

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