Well, this one's certainly touched a nerve. Let's all please be sensible. I merely forwarded it for interest, and as the originator wrote, "If you agree, please ... sign the e-petition. If not, sorry to have bothered you." Peace, guys. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: Dick Coleman To: eng-cambridgeshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:52 PM Subject: [ENG-CAMS] GRO Certificates - price hike Cambridge listers may be interested to see this, posted on the Hampshire list... Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware, the costs of GRO certificates will rise from £7 to £9.25 on the 6th April. Costs haven't risen for some years but an extra £2.25 on every certificate. That's a whopping 32% rise. GRO produces 2 million certificates a year, so that's 4.5 million extra profit in one swoop. 90% of applications are online now, so their work is reduced but we pay more! They are even scrapping the "checking points", so no more refunds if its not the correct certificate. Although protesting will probably fall on deaf ears, if we stay quiet, they will think they can hike the costs up whenever they want to. At least we can express how we feel about it. If you agree, please copy and paste the link below into your browser and sign the e-petition. If not, sorry to have bothered you. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/grocertificates/. Chris History of the villages of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight http://southernlife.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Dick I would just like to mention that, sometimes without listers telling us what is happening - we ex-pats would not know..... We don't always hear the news over here in Oz..... Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia > Well, this one's certainly touched a nerve. > > Let's all please be sensible. I merely forwarded it for interest, and as > the originator wrote, "If you agree, please ... sign the e-petition. If > not, sorry to have bothered you." > > Peace, guys.

That said, within hours of it being announced, I found it on about three (English) lists I am on, then local Aussie lists shortly after, AND in two personal emails received the same day. I had to laugh - there was no way I could not know about this! And thankful I am. I have ordered over 20 certs now, to beat the price rise. And have a few more to go when I get some of the certs already ordered - and the first order has already arrived all seven of them, in the normal timeframe. I had perhaps mistakenly assumed they would be delayed by the rush of numbers being ordered! Dawn (Melbourne Australia) -----Original Message----- From: eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of pam hillier Sent: Friday, 19 March 2010 10:49 AM To: Dick Coleman; eng-cambridgeshire@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-CAMS] GRO Certificates - price hike Thanks Dick I would just like to mention that, sometimes without listers telling us what is happening - we ex-pats would not know..... We don't always hear the news over here in Oz..... Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia > Well, this one's certainly touched a nerve. > > Let's all please be sensible. I merely forwarded it for interest, and as > the originator wrote, "If you agree, please ... sign the e-petition. If > not, sorry to have bothered you." > > Peace, guys. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4956 (20100318) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4956 (20100318) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com