Renewing your Vehicle Tax at DVLA

More than likely it’s to stop people actually going in and get them to do it online. I had this recently - I think it was for the driving licence card. Could renew online instantly, an option which was heavily pushed by the renewal reminder (track your renewal online etc.). If you wanted to renew any other way you had to go to the post office and pickup one of the D forms and fill it in to send off. Just seemed a cop out to cut down on number of applications they receive and increase the number of people applying online.