Chris! wrote:
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Ermm the One Day Travel Cards (ODTC) have a date printed on them. This
is so bus drivers, ticket inspectors, etc. are able to find out if the
ticket is valid or not by meerly glancing at it rather than feeding it
through a machine (which would take a lot of time)


And if you buy them from a shop which stamps the ticket manually (no
machine), then they are validated by their first use, regardless of the
date stamped.

A lot of time to feed a ticket through a machine? I'd have thought that
inspectors would have that time (30 seconds at the most) and there's no
reason why bus drivers should have to inspect tickets in any case.

Paul