Soon your deleted number plate will no longer be able to hand in at Postkantoor
© Kurt Desplenter
Those who want to delete a number plate can no longer hand it in from August in a post office or postal point of Bpost. From then on, the license plate must be sent to the Vehicle Registrations (DIV) department or delivered in Brussels. The Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport reports this on Tuesday.
If you want a license plate to be deleted, you must hand in the official album (the one with the DIV logo, which normally hangs on the vehicle at the back). Currently it can still be delivered in a local post office – at the counter or sometimes in a collection bus.
But the procedure will change. From 1 August the plate to be deleted must be sent to the DIV (address: DIV – 1212 Brussels / Bruxelles). The plate may be pleated to fit into an A4 cover, but may not be cut into pieces. The shipping costs are at least 6 euros. An alternative is to deposit the registration certificate in a collection box at the DIV or at the FPS Mobility and Transport, both in the Vooruitgangstraat in Brussels near the Noordstation.
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The FPS emphasizes that it is often not necessary to have the number plate scraped. Those who exchange the vehicle for another vehicle of the same category can retain the plate. The registration must only be done within four months. « That option is not used enough, » says the government service in a press release. However, the consumer saves time and money with it, because a new registration certificate for the existing number plate (26 euros) is at least half cheaper than the entire process to have the old album deleted, to request a new album, to have an front plate made and so on.
Bpost « Take a deed » of the FPS Mobility decision, says spokesperson Mathieu Goedefroy of the postal company. He states that the scrapping of the number plates is a small sharing of the agreement with the government and that the delivery of new number plates remains at Bpost. « We continue to fulfill our obligations, » it says.
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During Bpost’s investor day on Tuesday, CEO Chris Peeters said that the postal company is also interested in continuing to deliver the plates in the next tender. « We will fight for winning that, » said the CEO, because « it is a service with real added value. »
Delivering and deleting number plates was one of the three contracts with the government for which Bpost was discredited for a while because the company may have charged too much for those services.
