The conceited BBC, which can barely afford a pot to piss in if you believe its regular tales of destitution, spent £7 million posting TV Licensing threatograms to unlicensed properties during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
That figure does not include the costs of printing or processing the 26.5 million threatograms in question, so the total cost of sending them is likely to be much larger.
Crunching the numbers, it costs the BBC an average of 27 pence in postage for every TV Licensing missive sent.
Information obtained by the Daily Mail also confirms that a total of 34.3 million threatograms were sent out during the financial year 2019/20, which is an increase from 28.6 million in the financial year 2016/17.
We have previously written articles on the same subject, which you can read here and here. Fair play to the Daily Mail for getting there first on this occasion!
Speaking about the figures, Tory MP Peter Bone said: "The BBC are just not in the same world as everyone else.
"They live in their own elite bubble. The last people they care about is the licence fee payer. They're quite happy to pay fortunes to celebrities but they don't seem to care tuppence about people, many of whom are struggling during this covid crisis."
John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "This is a huge amount of taxpayers' money to be spent on bullying BBC letters.
"Hard-pressed households being chased for an ever more expensive TV tax highlights how completely outdated the whole model is.
"It's time to scrap the licence fee and let the public decide what's worth paying for."
A TV Licensing spokesman said: "We have a responsibility to inform people of changes to their licence and what they are legally required to do if they are not licensed and letters are a cost effective way of doing this, generating more revenue than they cost to send."
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A TV Licensing spokesman said: "We have a responsibility to inform people of changes to their licence and what they are legally required to do if they are not licensed "
Responsibility to whom? Not the Telecommunications Act that is for sure. Not the Government. Capita's Operating Procedures and nothing else.
What the letters should say is:
"We have a responsibility to inform people of changes to their licence and what they are legally required to do if they need a licence." But that is likely to be to polite for the BBC. Better to tell people they should by a licence and ignore that fact that they might not need one.
Somebody should tell the BBC that there is no legal requirement tot do anything if you do not need a licence. Strangely enough and incomprehensible to the BBC, there are lots of us that can get by without staring at an electronic box every night.
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