Penny wise
I used to work for a rather strange charity which ran summer holidays for children. One of the things I did was arrange the travel, which meant that I spent hours on the phone every summer buying many hundreds of rail tickets and packaging them up in bundles for the escorting staff.

One year I felt very pleased with myself for getting everything done and dusted several weeks in advance, and handed the sealed, addressed envelopes over to the CEO (and founder) for posting.

Later, when the shit hit the fan, I discovered that he had decided (a) to send them second class to save money and (b) to wait until the last moment before sending them, "last moment" being "two days before travel day".

I stopped counting the cost of the replacement tickets we had to buy when it got to £400. I am sure it ended up at least twice that. Almost all the delayed tickets were advance purchase, so no refund possible.

And how much did the dozy old fool save by sending them second class? In total, about one pound and sixty pence.
(ubergeekian, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:49, 1 reply)

Oh the tickets....
.... I thought you meant send the children second class.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 23:00, closed)