Ch1 - BBC love letters

In the UK you need to pay a licence fee to be allowed to watch the BBC and some other content.
The yearly fee is collected by a company called Capita who use excessively aggressive techniques to intimidate people into paying for a licence that they may not actually need.

When I was young and got my own flat, I didn't have a television, because I was working long hours and spending all my free time writing software and building gadgets in my workshop.
Then the "letters" started coming.... Really nasty letters that implied that if I had ANYTHING at all that could receive a TV signal then I needed to pay for a licence. Then came the visits from "inspectors", who demanded access to my flat so they could search it for an unlawful TV.
(It turns out that the "inspectors" are just employees with as much right to enter your home as Ronald McDonald.)

In the end, the continuous threats and intimidation got to me and I paid for a licence even though I had no TV.

Imagine if a loan company sent a debt collector after everyone in the hope that people would be bullied into paying for a loan they never had. That's Capita. And because it's a "government thing" they seem to be unaccountable.