On Dec 15, 12:50*am, Mizter T wrote:
On Dec 14, 9:50*pm, (Roy Badami) wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

(Though annual Travelcards prob best purchased on the 31st, just in
case of any purchasing difficulties - New Year's Day might not be the
best time for such a transaction! That said, it could start a booking
office (clerk) somewhere off onto a positive start for the year to
come...)

Presumably you'd have no difficulty buying a Travelcard on the Oyster
web site (assuming you already have an Oyster card). *Could be
relevent to someone waking up and making a New Year's resolution to
stop driving to work...

I wouldn't be so sure about that actually - Oyster 'products' (top-ups
and Travelcards) bought online for an existing card need to be ordered
before 11pm the day beforehand in order for them to be sent to the
relevant station's ticket gates/ validators to await being picked up.

So it's a question of whether or not the Travelcard prices charged
online on the 1 Jan for tickets that are to be picked up from - and
start validity on - 2 Jan are the old or new prices, and I dare say
they're the new prices. If I'm concious after my new yearly liver
replacement op I'll try and remember to log in and see what the system
wants to charge me for season Travelcards.

Hmm. Interesting thought. When one uses a machine at a station to
renew a season on Oyster, it'll say "start today, start tomorrow,
start whenever ...". I wonder if the prices are different?









Someone could always buy their annual Travelcard via Oyster online on
the 31 Dec to start from 1 Jan, but then pick it up on the 2 Jan or
whatever (I think it remains active to pick up for a week or eight
days or something).



Are booking office clerks on commission, then?

Erm, not sure of the arrangements I must admit - I was thinking that
NR ticket offices in particular quite poss have some sort of
incentives scheme, not necessarily commission for the individual clerk
but perhaps per station targets (though such a thing might run April-
April i.e. financial years or some other timescale of course), and
that LU would likely have something too - I dunno, TBH.