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Today I discovered that the capital of Malta, Valletta, has a congestion charging scheme. I learned the hard way - I received a bill for having driven there in November. It wasn't a terribly hard way though - I owe them a total of 0.83 euros - about 60 pence I think. So it compares favorably to the London one. 

I tried calling them to pay over the phone but they wanted this princely sum by cheque. I think that the cheque processing cost would be higher than the value of the cheque itself, but I suppose the cost of their time to do it on the phone would also have been higher.

They have the facility to pay online, but to use it you have to download, print out, fill in and send off a form requesting it. You can't sign up online. So I did that for future payments. They also have a direct debit scheme so I downloaded, printed out and filled in a form for this too. 'Why not send them all off at the same time?', I thought.

So all in all I spent nearly an hour paying the 83 cents.