Motorists will now have to carry their insurance cover note with them while driving, to prove they are covered under insurance if asked by police.
However, the news comes directly after a meeting between the leaders of the Communication Workers Union, to decide when their national postal strike will occur in Britain. This will be the first national postal strike to take place since 2007.
For drivers, the timing could be extremely inconvenient, especially if insured drivers are punished for not carrying their insurance forms due to delays in postal service, as a result of the strike.
Due to the 2007 postal strike, about 200 million items of post ended up in a heap, and took several weeks to finally reach their appropriate recipients.
Local strikes since June have already caused 30 million parcels and letters to backlog.
Police officers can use the Motor and Insurance Bureau database to check if drivers are insured, but the AA is fearful that if there are delays in updating the database, motorists could wrongly have their cars impounded.
A source from the AA said that, at times it can take two to three days until a person’s details are placed in the database.
