No it isn't. It's a dick move but not against the law. The local council need to make enquiries with DVLA and issue a notice to the registered owner to move their vehicle. The police certainly wouldn't have any powers over this.
If any person wilfully obstructs, or incites anyone to obstruct, an officer of the Post Office in the execution of his duty, or whilst in any post office, or within any premises belonging to any post office or used therewith, obstructs the course of business of the Post Office, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
I’d argue it’s obstructing an officer of the post office in the execution of his duty. Forty Shillings please.
If the law was regularly upheld, I'm sure the fine would be reviewed on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure if somebody was to be charged under this particular piece of legislation, they wouldn't actually be fined 40 shillings, but a remuneration more fitting of the offence. £240 sounds about right for obstructing a post box with your shitty parking.
Except the wording of the law explicitly forbids fines of more than 40 shillings, so they'd need to amend the law first, and someone can't be fined under a new law when it never existed at the time.
Basically it's so rarely an issue there's no need to be enforced, so there's no point in changing it.
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u/BoiledEggOnToast Nov 08 '19
It’s against the law to block a postbox from being accessed from a postman!