Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? Digital and Cable

[Tonks]

I just have to have a place to bitch about the converter box thing. 
Leave it to the government!!  What a stupid way to administer a 
program. Who are they working for anyway? Walmart??

Here is how it works. I heard about it back the early part of the 
year. I sent for it. I signed a friend up too. I lost mine somewhere 
in my apartment. She didn't need hers. The #@!%(**&#  things EXPIRE 
90 days TO THE DAY after they are issued. Not at the end of a month, 
but some date exactly 90 days after you call or push the button on 
the Internet. Back in March when her's was expiring she gave it to 
me and told me to go get it before the end of the month. BUT the 
thing expired, not at the end of the month but one day before the 
end. I was busy.. I missed the date by one day. WalMart would not 
take it. I can not get another one. I just tried on the net. The 
government knows who I am and told me "two have already been issued 
for your household". *(&(&^$#@^(*(#$!!!!!!!!!!! Now I will have to 
BUY a #$@$%%##@@^^&$$@@!!!!!! box. And they say it can not be 
extented if your expired.

Why I ask can't the govenment just make them all expire on the same 
day, at the end of January, 2009. or even the end of 2008? No.. they 
spend all of this money on advertising on the TV, printing the 
plastic cards.. and for what??? SO half of us can throw them away 
and pay $40.00 for the box anyway. Screw them... I just will not 
watch TV anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

IF you want something to be screwed up, just put a government agency 
in charge of it!!! You would think that by now the goverment would 
understand the people. We all wait till April 15th to do our taxes. 
We will all wait till the last day to get our boxes, just before we 
need them. How come they can't figure that out? I know, I know.. 
they don't want a run on the stores... but still... they should know 
us by now. 

Tonks_op