has any one used a hand written ticket before? My experience in the past has always been a hard copy ticket and they take ticket and leave you the stub. do they punch the hand written ticket?
Posted by reggierail (Member # 26) on :
Used a lot of hand written tickets. I ran a rail tour last October with 40 people for a 16 day tour to New England & Eastern Canada. I had to hand write 17 tickets. The last copy is the passenger reciept & hopefully if the ticket writer pressed real hard(to go through the 6 copies above it) you can read it. The conductor doesn't usually punch the ticket because you have no stub, just the final copy reciept. Yours Reggie
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Posted by Ed Von Nordeck (Member # 130) on :
Hand written tickets. Should present no problem. You have two types of handwritten, those that a Travel Agent would use, which is a airline couponticket stock, then you have the Amtrak coupon stock. Conductors still sees these from time to time, particulary when the card printers go down.
As each conductor picks up a coupon, they will punch that coupon to "cancel" the coupon. Some will punch all the way through. to the hard copy, which the passenger keeps. On Amtrak book tickets, their is a spot for each conductor to punch, but its so small an area that very few do it, since they now see so few book tickets.
Reggie, I assume you hand write Air Line ticket stock? How about typing them. Thats what I do, having been "grandfathered" as a agent doing rail ticketing prior to Amtrak, I still use Amtrak type ticket stock, and type most of the tickets and this solves the problem of going through so many copies.
Thats what Amtrak ticket offices once did before printers. In fact thats the first thing that Amtrak purchased new for the San Bernaridno office, was two new manual typewriters for tickets.
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Posted by reggierail (Member # 26) on :
That's an idea Ed. Never really thought of it as I usually take the tickets home with me to write. Yes we use the ARC 4-part airline stock tickets. When I write the tickets I usually write each section on all tickets & then start on the next section, seems I make less mistakes that way. Believe me I write as few tickets as Possible. Yours Reggie