BBC chiefs last year spent £9.25million on sending 34million letters demanding licence fee payments. That works out at 111,959 enforcement notes each working day.
And the figure is likely to rise even higher after the BBC — led by director-general Tim Davie — pledged to crack down on 750,000 over-75s believed to have refused to pay after free licences were scrapped.
The total post bill, revealed by a Freedom of Information request, would cover the cost of giving £159 licences to more than 58,000 of them.
John O’Connell, of campaigners TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “People are being chased for an ever-more expensive TV tax when hard-up households are struggling to make ends meet. “Heavy-handed enforcement like this shows why the licence fee has.
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