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davidgillonGot my tickets for my next trip North in the post this morning, which was a relief as they should have gone in the post of Saturday, leading to delivery on Monday or Tuesday (my last set were ordered at 4:50PM on one day and arrived in the 11AM post the next) and I was starting to fret.
So I opened the end of the envelope to extract the folder they come in, and it wouldn't come out. I took another look, and that's when I went 'Eeek!', because the other end of the envelope had been resealed with sellotape, and was clearly less pristine than when it started - half open along the seal, slightly chewed around the actual end, and somewhat greasy.
A firmer tug got the folder out, and an anxious check confirmed all the tickets were there (two sets of three, plus a covering note). But they're all credit card-sized slips of thin card, easily lost if the end is open - now I understand why they come in that internal paper folder.
Best hypothesis I have is it got chewed up and potentially stuck inside the sorting machinery at the Royal Mail.
So I opened the end of the envelope to extract the folder they come in, and it wouldn't come out. I took another look, and that's when I went 'Eeek!', because the other end of the envelope had been resealed with sellotape, and was clearly less pristine than when it started - half open along the seal, slightly chewed around the actual end, and somewhat greasy.
A firmer tug got the folder out, and an anxious check confirmed all the tickets were there (two sets of three, plus a covering note). But they're all credit card-sized slips of thin card, easily lost if the end is open - now I understand why they come in that internal paper folder.
Best hypothesis I have is it got chewed up and potentially stuck inside the sorting machinery at the Royal Mail.
