Rob Hamadi wrote:

AIUI, RP collect the tickets from the driver first, then match them up
with the stubs retained by the pax.

Correct. I wondered about this too, until the day the inspectors boarded
my bus. They simply ask the driver if they've taken any Saver tickets on
that journey - usually there aren't many, if any. Then they go through
the bus with that ticket in their sticky mitt, looking for the relevant
stub. "Oh, it's you, is it, we wondered who had the Saver ticket."

And the Oyster cards of course are read by some clever kind of hand held
card reading device.
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Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
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