False EconomiesSometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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Second class post.Some years ago I was arranging travel for children going to residential holidays. This involved spending many hours on the phone to The Trainline, then sorting scores of tickets into neat little piles and packaging them up, with instructions, for the escorting staff.
The last time I did it, everything was ready about three weeks in advance and I handed them over the the chap who ran the organisation for posting. Did he post them? Did he hell. He kept the envelopes on his desk for two weeks, "in case there were any changes" (there weren't, and it would have been easy to send amended instructions or more tickets if there had been) and then, with three days to go, he posted them. Second class.
The result was inevitable. Only one packet of tickets arrived on time, and replacements for all the others had to be bought at short notice - so no advance purchase deals.
Total cost to the organisation: a shade under £500
Total savings from using second class post: £1.62
(, Fri 27 Jun 2014, 7:38, 1 reply)
Yes but you neglected to mention thatall the tickets had a destination of Jimmy Saville's country estate.
(, Sat 28 Jun 2014, 1:19, closed)
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