Re: Speed camera question

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:37:45 -0000, "GB" <NOTsomeone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>"Rob" <rsvptorob-usenetREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> |||| I know this, Hertz also add on a £35 handling charge for
>> |||| forwarding the letter.
>> ||||
>> |||
>> ||| ... which constitutes an unlawful penalty charge as there is no way
>> ||| it can cost this much.
>> ||
>> || Oh yes it can. :)
>>
>> Possibly, in some alternate reality maybe. Even allowing for creative
>> accounting, no business could survive if it cost them £35 to process a
>> letter.
>>
>> --
>> Rob
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>They might need to get the paperwork out to send documentary evidence, in
>which case 35 quid to retrieve from off-site storage and put it back sounds
>positively cheap to me.
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>Besides that, think about what's involved:-
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>Open post
>Log it
>Complete progress-chasing system to make sure that the paperwork gets dealt
>with
>Sort it and give to appropriate person to deal with
>Look up the reservation on the database
>Extract details and fill in form
>Then give this to someone else to double-check it all, because all hell
>breaks out if you finger the wrong person to the Police.
>Finally, send off the details to the Police and update progress-chasing
>system to show task is completed
>Then file copies, store these for six years and then confidentially destroy.
>(Six years is probably not necessary in this case, but it's hard to
>discriminate in a filing system.)
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>I don't see why 35 quid is unreasonable. That pays for maybe an hour's
>clerical/supervisor time. Remember that wages are only a fairly small part
>of what it costs to employ somebody.
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>

You have just told us why it is unreasonable.

As you say, it would pay for about an hours worth pf time.

Everything you list above will take about 15 minutes put together, if
the person doing it is dragging their heels a bit.
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