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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Remembering 20 quid would last you over a year and of that 20 only
some of it is spent on visiting your mother as you need a receipt.

I prefer to have the cash rather than lend it to LUL for a year, thank
you. In fact it would probably be more like two years because I more
often than not use paper tickets, including on Monday when I would need
to get two more Oyster cards for wife and daughter to use pre-pay, even
if it was cheaper.

I understand that, and I understand you are wanting to put a small
amount on your card at a ticket office so you can get a receipt.

This suggests that you rarely use the ticket office so it is not an
inconvenience worth bothering about.

Why do you need receipts to visit you mother anyway? Tax fraud?

Why don't you ensure you have the funds for the return leg before you
set off?

Just because you are either committing fraud or are disorganised is no
reason to TFL to make it convenient for you.

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In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Why do you need receipts to visit you mother anyway? Tax fraud?

I don't need receipts on Monday of course. I rarely use the card and had
to pay £3 for it plus the £1.50 credit I have to keep on it if I don't
want to get caught by massive queues, e.g. at King's Cross. All to avoid
getting ripped off for the same journeys. But if I don't add the amount
used on days when I am claiming I can 't get a receipt for the right
amount.

When I started working in London in 2001 the add-on for a day travelcard
over a day return was 60p. That has now gone up to £3.30, a 5.5 fold
increase in just over 5 years. Is it any wonder that I cycle every time I
can?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Why do you need receipts to visit you mother anyway? Tax fraud?

I don't need receipts on Monday of course. I rarely use the card and had
to pay £3 for it plus the £1.50 credit I have to keep on it if I don't
want to get caught by massive queues, e.g. at King's Cross. All to avoid
getting ripped off for the same journeys. But if I don't add the amount
used on days when I am claiming I can 't get a receipt for the right
amount.

Why do you need a receipt. Why are you claiming expenses to visit your
mother.

Why should we subsidise you to defraud?

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In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Why do you need receipts to visit you mother anyway? Tax fraud?

I don't need receipts on Monday of course. I rarely use the card
and had to pay £3 for it plus the £1.50 credit I have to keep on it
if I don'twant to get caught by massive queues, e.g. at King's
Cross. All to avoid getting ripped off for the same journeys. But
if I don't add the amount used on days when I am claiming I can 't
get a receipt for the right amount.

Why do you need a receipt. Why are you claiming expenses to visit
your mother.

Why should we subsidise you to defraud?

There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am claiming
expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of course. A ticket office
receipt is the only form available other than usage printouts which as
far as I'm concerned are also only obtainable at a ticket office. Can
ticket shops do them?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
lid (Stevo) wrote:

Why do you need receipts to visit you mother anyway? Tax fraud?

I don't need receipts on Monday of course. I rarely use the card
and had to pay £3 for it plus the £1.50 credit I have to keep on
it if I don'twant to get caught by massive queues, e.g. at King's
Cross. All to avoid getting ripped off for the same journeys. But
if I don't add the amount used on days when I am claiming I can 't
get a receipt for the right amount.

Why do you need a receipt. Why are you claiming expenses to visit
your mother.

Why should we subsidise you to defraud?

There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am
claiming expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of course. A
ticket office receipt is the only form available other than usage
printouts which as far as I'm concerned are also only obtainable at
a ticket office. Can ticket shops do them?

You can get usage reports online.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

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On 30 May, 15:54, "Richard J." wrote:
There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am
claiming expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of course. A
ticket office receipt is the only form available other than usage
printouts which as far as I'm concerned are also only obtainable at
a ticket office. Can ticket shops do them?

You can get usage reports online.

I can't speak for Colin's employers, but not everyone is willing to
accept printouts of documents delivered online (mine are happy with
it, but they're saner than most about expenses-related-bureaucracy in
general).
[*] Most notably banks, who try and switch your account to online
statements 'for your convenience', and then refuse to accept print-
outs of online statements as proof of identity for the purposes of
their box-ticking exercises.

[**] I know the box-ticking itself is government-mandated; however, I
don't believe that the legislation bans the use of online statements
as the proof of address to go alongside proof of identity.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

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On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:44 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am claiming
expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of course. A ticket office
receipt is the only form available other than usage printouts which as
far as I'm concerned are also only obtainable at a ticket office. Can
ticket shops do them?

Don't see why a ticket machine couldn't print them perhaps on a couple
of ticket blanks clearly marked "not valid for travel".

Neil

--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

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In article .com,
(John B) wrote:

On 30 May, 15:54, "Richard J." wrote:
There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am
claiming expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of
course. A ticket office receipt is the only form available other
than usage printouts which as far as I'm concerned are also only
obtainable at a ticket office. Can ticket shops do them?

You can get usage reports online.

I can't speak for Colin's employers, but not everyone is willing to
accept printouts of documents delivered online (mine are happy with
it, but they're saner than most about expenses-related-bureaucracy
in general).

[*] Most notably banks, who try and switch your account to online
statements 'for your convenience', and then refuse to accept print-
outs of online statements as proof of identity for the purposes of
their box-ticking exercises.

[**] I know the box-ticking itself is government-mandated; however,
I don't believe that the legislation bans the use of online statements
as the proof of address to go alongside proof of identity.

Doesn't an Oyster card have to be registered to get reports online?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:44 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am
claiming expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of course. A
ticket office receipt is the only form available other than usage
printouts which as far as I'm concerned are also only obtainable at
a ticket office. Can ticket shops do them?

Don't see why a ticket machine couldn't print them perhaps on a
couple of ticket blanks clearly marked "not valid for travel".

Possibly, but can Ticket Shops do receipts?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article .com,
(John B) wrote:

On 30 May, 15:54, "Richard J." wrote:
There are times when I stay overnight with my mother when I am
claiming expenses, quite legitimately. Not on Monday, of
course. A ticket office receipt is the only form available other
than usage printouts which as far as I'm concerned are also only
obtainable at a ticket office. Can ticket shops do them?

You can get usage reports online.

I can't speak for Colin's employers, but not everyone is willing to
accept printouts of documents delivered online (mine are happy with
it, but they're saner than most about expenses-related-bureaucracy
in general).

[*] Most notably banks, who try and switch your account to online
statements 'for your convenience', and then refuse to accept print-
outs of online statements as proof of identity for the purposes of
their box-ticking exercises.

[**] I know the box-ticking itself is government-mandated; however,
I don't believe that the legislation bans the use of online
statements as the proof of address to go alongside proof of
identity.

Doesn't an Oyster card have to be registered to get reports online?

Yes. From "Get the most out of your Oyster card": : "Registered Oyster
card holders can get a statement of all journeys made in the last 8
weeks."

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)