"Paul Terry" wrote in message
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Mizter T writes

To clarify (because there's the danger of discussing at cross-purposes
here!) I think some changes were made to the way the DfT recompenses
councils for free bus travel, which happened in response to concerns
such as those Colin outlined above. I should add I'm no expert on the
matter!

One of these days, someone (other than me) is going to realise that
courier services could be offered much more cheaply by the retired hopping
around on their free travel passes than by man+van who has to pay for van,
petrol, insurance, congestion charge etc.

The only difficulty is organising distribution centres - parish tea rooms
might appeal (I'm not being entirely flippant, by the way).
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Paul Terry

At least one travel company in my part of the world advertised for someone
to deliver tickets up to London and while I can't remember the exact wording
and I suspect they had to be careful about age discrimination it was pretty
clear they were looking for somebody with some from of rail pass and I got
the distinct impression they were looking for a senior pass holder.