In message , at 12:28:33 on Tue, 8 Dec
2015, Neil Williams remarked:

Do you have aspergers? Is that why you prefer machines over people?

Or simply that you can get 3 machines in the space of one ticket
window.

To be fair, there wasn't usually a shortage of windows at the most
congested stations, just a shortage of *staffed* windows.

A bit like our old Post Office here which eight windows, usually with
just two manned even at the busiest times. Sometimes three for the short
duration of a shift change.

The new Post Office has just two windows, plus a "parcels reception
desk". Normally they again have just two staff on duty. For whatever
reason the queues are now much shorter, although this may be a result of
them having institutionally dumped almost all the types of business
other than weighing and stamping letters and parcels.
--
Roland Perry