TrueBlue
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I suspect that EA get a fee for including the junk mail.
If not then B1 will need to get on the case. Every little helps....
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I suspect that EA get a fee for including the junk mail.
If not then B1 will need to get on the case. Every little helps....
apollo
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Its what i have been telling Mikey Gates for years, normally when tries to flog me a berth..
I agree wholeheartedly on the good service, just not crazy on those three sections of the river location wise.
boatone
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As someone noticed, the admin for registrations has moved to the National Customer Contact Centre in Rotherham which means Reading don't need loads of people for a couple of months at registration time and only a couple for the rest of the year. Don't know but this may mean that EA Reading now pay for that service when needed but save the rest of the year. Think i'm right in saying they have retained management control at Reading though.
There is a charge for stuffing flyers - I know , I asked re TMBA but too late for this year. Suspect too expensive for me anyways as several hundred pounds was mentioned and that doesn't include the cost of printing the flyers of course. Wouldn't be surprised if they generated around £2k income from the 'junk mail exercise though and, as TrueBlue says, 'every little helps.
As the work is being done at Rotherham income may not accrue to the Reading 'pot' anyway.
Dunno what good me being 'on the case' would do - surely you are not suggesting I should do a Clarkson, are you ?
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Captain Coochie
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Odd they have subbed out "getting in the money" only after one go at it .
Seeing as they are the ones that police the river and do the hard work in " catching people " then why sub out the result of that hard work ? I could understand if they subbed out the patrol to " Catch people " but after the work has been done ? Thats just bad business in so many ways .
Seeing as they are the ones that police the river and do the hard work in " catching people " then why sub out the result of that hard work ? I could understand if they subbed out the patrol to " Catch people " but after the work has been done ? Thats just bad business in so many ways .
boatone
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They've only 'subbed out' the registration renewals work as far as I know - i.e. sending out the forms and adminning the returns work and issuing the licence plates. The money itself hasn't been handed over !
Captain Coochie
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Well thats just stupid as they have all year to prepare the paper work and they already have the task of finding out what boats are where .
I guess they see it as cost effective but i think it would be more cost effective just hiring one or two people to deal with it .
Super markets manage it every day so it cant be that hard . All you need is a till manned by a person . A bit like a lock with a lock keeper .
I know its a funny idea but what if when you go through a lock without a liecence you get someone that pulls you up and says you need to pay .
We could call them lock keepers , they could take the money that pays the wages of the nobber that keeps thinking up these new ideas that dont work .
I guess they see it as cost effective but i think it would be more cost effective just hiring one or two people to deal with it .
Super markets manage it every day so it cant be that hard . All you need is a till manned by a person . A bit like a lock with a lock keeper .
I know its a funny idea but what if when you go through a lock without a liecence you get someone that pulls you up and says you need to pay .
We could call them lock keepers , they could take the money that pays the wages of the nobber that keeps thinking up these new ideas that dont work .
bumperdump
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simple get back all the sterling thet has been handed over to the Greeks, give to the E.A = cheaper boating for all.
Ramage
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Or the money that is being wasted on the Olympics.......
Brayman
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Or the money to be wasted on HS2......
oldgit
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or all that money wasted enabling Thames users to pass through a lock without the poor pampered dears ever having to actually get off the b..ms and get their hands dirty ..........oops
Chris_d
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or all that money wasted enabling Thames users to pass through a lock without the poor pampered dears ever having to actually get off the b..ms and get their hands dirty ..........oops
Actualy taking into account the cost of damage that could be caused by some Thames users it is probably the cheaper option
TrueBlue
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Many a true word -
spoken in jest perhaps, but it gives me a chance to make a point.
Inhabitants of these Fora are well used to working the waterways themselves. However, the Thames is different as it caters for, or has a population of folks who are ? frightened ? / not willing / not able to work the locks themselves.
I believe that if attended lock facilities are withdrawn / wither away, that even more boats will stay fixed in their marinas and not venture out.
To my mind the River needs more traffic moving up and down. In turn that will encourage Joe Public to come and gongoozle at boaters doing what they do - making amusement for the assembled masses watching from the sidelines. Hopefully that should contribute to a general feeling of wellbeing, sadly lacking at the moment - or in the immediate future. In time a bubbly riverside could encourage LAs and businesses to invest some resources in the riverside.
The problem is all these brave assertions don't produce any new income, well for the EA and whoever may follow them.
The public's perceived view of Thames boaters is of the glistening white expensive boats who venture out only occasionally, whereas the truth is that there are many more DIY boaters (including myself, and you and others on this forum, and , and...) some of who could do with a little help from a person on the lockside, who use the River.
Ea are struggling with an ever contracting pot of money and for the time being the easiest way to show that they are attacking the problem is to cut the direct costs. The next step may be to cut back on the infrastructure; that which can't be replaced if and when times get better.
So message is get the boats moving during the season - if that means a flunky at the locks - then well and good.
I'm happy to wind a sluice, a bit slow with the newer Elfin safety gear, but it's other folk that I'm concerned about.
Apologies; another rant in reply to a (probably) flippant post...
or all that money wasted enabling Thames users to pass through a lock without the poor pampered dears ever having to actually get off the b..ms and get their hands dirty ..........oops
spoken in jest perhaps, but it gives me a chance to make a point.
Inhabitants of these Fora are well used to working the waterways themselves. However, the Thames is different as it caters for, or has a population of folks who are ? frightened ? / not willing / not able to work the locks themselves.
I believe that if attended lock facilities are withdrawn / wither away, that even more boats will stay fixed in their marinas and not venture out.
To my mind the River needs more traffic moving up and down. In turn that will encourage Joe Public to come and gongoozle at boaters doing what they do - making amusement for the assembled masses watching from the sidelines. Hopefully that should contribute to a general feeling of wellbeing, sadly lacking at the moment - or in the immediate future. In time a bubbly riverside could encourage LAs and businesses to invest some resources in the riverside.
The problem is all these brave assertions don't produce any new income, well for the EA and whoever may follow them.
The public's perceived view of Thames boaters is of the glistening white expensive boats who venture out only occasionally, whereas the truth is that there are many more DIY boaters (including myself, and you and others on this forum, and , and...) some of who could do with a little help from a person on the lockside, who use the River.
Ea are struggling with an ever contracting pot of money and for the time being the easiest way to show that they are attacking the problem is to cut the direct costs. The next step may be to cut back on the infrastructure; that which can't be replaced if and when times get better.
So message is get the boats moving during the season - if that means a flunky at the locks - then well and good.
I'm happy to wind a sluice, a bit slow with the newer Elfin safety gear, but it's other folk that I'm concerned about.
Apologies; another rant in reply to a (probably) flippant post...
boatone
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or all that money wasted enabling Thames users to pass through a lock without the poor pampered dears ever having to actually get off the b..ms and get their hands dirty ..........oops
....and just how many times a year do you find 10 or 20 or more boats queuing (sometimes at BOTH ends) to get through a lock on the Mudway?
Come to think of it, ARE there 20 or more boats on the Mudway ?
Ramage
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or all that money wasted enabling Thames users to pass through a lock without the poor pampered dears ever having to actually get off the b..ms and get their hands dirty ..........oops
Hmmm! Lets see.... cost of licence for 10 metre boat on the Mudway
£264.50
Cost of Registration for 10 metre boat on the Royal River Thames
£566.44
So yes please, I would like a lock keeper.
sailorman
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They supply tap water to almost 9million people across the Thames Valley and London and, according to their website they plan to invest nearly £4.9bn across their region from 2010 to 2015.
So £1 a year for every customer as a contribution to the river that provides their raw material sounds good to me !
And just think of the PR value they could generate from such a gesture !
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You know....there's the making of a splendid campaign in that.
A politely-worded, constructive campaign letter, sent by as many people as possible (club members/associations/license-holders etc)....by post (for impact) to the chairman of Thames Water....copied to the newspapers (national and regional)....local radio......TV......something non-confrontational which gives them an opportunity to respond constructively as opposed to just 'raising the barrier' from the outset.....
I wonder.......
we filled our water tank prior to departing Limehouse Basin.
i pumped it all out in Chatham the nxt day, its foul stuff YUK
boatone
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Did you pay for it? If not, why not?we filled our water tank prior to departing Limehouse Basin.
i pumped it all out in Chatham the nxt day, its foul stuff YUK
Valuable stuff, water you know
apollo
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Did you pay for it? If not, why not?
Valuable stuff, water you know
Why should he, Thames Water didnt frickin pay for it either!!
No Regrets
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we filled our water tank prior to departing Limehouse Basin.
i pumped it all out in Chatham the nxt day, its foul stuff YUK
How did you get the water from Limehouse basin into your water tank?
oldgit
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....and just how many times a year do you find 10 or 20 or more boats queuing (sometimes at BOTH ends) to get through a lock on the Mudway?
Come to think of it, ARE there 20 or more boats on the Mudway ?
A,hem far far be it for me to comment of the general competence of the average Thames fender polisher, but perhaps our ability down here to organise ourselves properly for the efficient transit of a lock with out the need for the friendly but firm hand of a lockie to wipe our noses and take our lines could just possibly have something to do with it. Hurrumph......
sailorman
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Did you pay for it? If not, why not?
Valuable stuff, water you know
That had been through more bodies then Jack the Ripper