On 01/08/2015 18:48, eastender wrote:
I don't understand why we keep seeing stories about unclaimed Oyster
money as though TFL is doing something wrong.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/trans...-10430319.html


Clearly the deposit was necessary to cut down on people throwing the
cards away. And clearly anyone can get their money back, even from
aboard by mailing it. You can get a refund on the credit online if not
the deposit. And the average credit on cards is only £3.74 a card in any
case.

About the only thing they could do is allow people to cancel the card
completely online and get credit and deposit back.

Am I missing something?


The massive conspiracy that doesn't exist except in the minds of
excitable / dim folk?

Does it perhaps keep cropping up as the result of new FOI answers, or
answers from TfL to London assembly members?

I need to dig out that old card I've got with £30+ on it which snapped
rendering it unusable... problem is I've no idea where I safely stashed
it away!