I recently moved house, so now I’m in the process of changing my address on various documents. One is the Car Registration / Ownership Certificate of my mighty Welsh Nissan with a Scandinavian name.
I remembered that when I bought the car last year it took about 6 weeks to get the certificate with my name and address, so I figured I would start the procedure as soon as possible this time. So last week, the same week I moved house basically, I filled out the old certificate with the new details and I mailed it to the appropriate DVLA office in Swansea. Yesterday I received a letter in the mail with my new certificate.
One week.
It took just about one week, possibly even less, if you take off the mailing times and the weekend.
I am speechless.
There is hope. Sometimes bureaucracy works! Well, they also tell you that if you don’t change the address on the certificate you are breaking the law and you could be given a £1,000 fine. Has anyone ever got fined for that? Really? Strange British laws.
You were lucky this time
The Norwegian tax office kept sending to my Spanish address my Norwegian tax card for two years! Sometimes bureaucracy does NOT work.
Oh yes, they can be so “funny” some times
Silly rules… 
My UK bank wanted an Italian address to open the account and UK address for correspondence. Fine, no problem. But everything arrived at the UK address, except the credit card. Cards apparently have different rules. I had to go to the bank and ask for the card to be mailed to my UK address. What the hell, I live in the UK, right? So… I am not going to be in Italy too at the same time, waiting for my card there, am I? Hello???