You do wonder really how many people would bother trying that scam. The duplicate plus ID should be enough to secure entry.It certainly implies that - but as posted above there is absolutely nothing to stop people from amending the details of the email and turning up with "valid ID"
So i can't believe it will be the case,
The ticket is for duplicate printing of a ticket - you need the email confirmation to print the ticket - not entry to the ground
Personally I think the club haven't sent the tickets out. They are using the postal strike as a smokescreen to try and catch people out who are passing on tickets.
I haven't had any post for over a week so asked a mate who a postie to have a look for me this morning. He's just brought my mail round. No tickets. But my Moonpig Christmas cards that I ordered last Thursday were there and they've come from Jersey.
Trains…..don’t forget the trains…..Ffs I hope people enjoy their day….
The amount of worrying and moaning on here I’d imagine many will now move on to panicking about whether it rains or not or moaning about the cost of a pint around London Bridge.
Yep, we’ve had a single post delivery in the last week/10 days……..
Nice theory.
I'm told, the backlog from the strike days is horrific in Bromley (my local sorting office) and the stuff that requires RM to sort is going to come through in a very random manner.
Consequently, I haven't received any post in the past 4 weeks apart from a bank statement and some Sky flyers.
These would have been pre-sorted by a down-stream access provider, before going into RM, so stands a chance of being less delayed.
Moonpig will use the same DSA services which is why you've got your card.
You do wonder really how many people would bother trying that scam. The duplicate plus ID should be enough to secure entry.
Yeah same problem here - you can get it from your account details on the ticket site (under Tickets section)Does it say anywhere how late we can leave it to add ourselves to the list using that link?
I’d like to give the postman one last chance before committing to queueing.
It also says the transaction number is on the email confirmation, but it isn’t!
Thanks, this has saved me a lot of time.Looks like they've set up a ticketing link to request duplicates - great, no need to queue on the phone at least. But why couldn't they have let us know about this before? The communication has been really poor.
I don't really see any reason why they couldn't have put this up yesterday though, there will always have been some people who couldn't wait for the post today who would have known they needed to collect at the ground.Disagree.
Club couldn't possibly be sure of the impact until the final post had hit and clearly had this up their sleeve if the phones and web chat got swamped.
Very quickly put the option up when it was clearly going to be a shit show
I'm sure I read somewhere (possibly this thread) that all tickets had been sent out by the 7th December which was 2 weeks ago. I fail to believe that the every other bit of mail that has been sent to me in that time has made it to my local sorting office (which I've had quite a bit for reasons I won't go in to) apart from some tickets which have got to travel 20 miles up the road.
Nice theory.
I'm told, the backlog from the strike days is horrific in Bromley (my local sorting office) and the stuff that requires RM to sort is going to come through in a very random manner.
Consequently, I haven't received any post in the past 4 weeks apart from a bank statement and some Sky flyers.
These would have been pre-sorted by a down-stream access provider, before going into RM, so stands a chance of being less delayed.
Moonpig will use the same DSA services which is why you've got your card.
From what very limited post I have received, it would seem that the RM are working on parcels and tracked first, and then from the top down on the backlog rather than from the bottom up, so that the earlier something was posted, the less chance you have of receiving it anytime soon.
Nice theory.
I'm told, the backlog from the strike days is horrific in Bromley (my local sorting office) and the stuff that requires RM to sort is going to come through in a very random manner.
Consequently, I haven't received any post in the past 4 weeks apart from a bank statement and some Sky flyers.
These would have been pre-sorted by a down-stream access provider, before going into RM, so stands a chance of being less delayed.
Moonpig will use the same DSA services which is why you've got your card.
I suspect the logistics of printing an unknown number of tickets adds a complication to this that we are not considering.I don't really see any reason why they couldn't have put this up yesterday though, there will always have been some people who couldn't wait for the post today who would have known they needed to collect at the ground.
It's not like Charlton can't use the blanks or ink and toner etc. for later games though.I suspect the logistics of printing an unknown number of tickets adds a complication to this that we are not considering.
These sort of processes are normally used for a relatively tiny number of tickets.
Today is very different, and the process is not up to the potential demand.
My guess is there are several risks in the process such as;
Therefore keeping the actual number of duplicates to a minimum is a critical factor.
- not having enough blanks to reprint all tickets
- Running out of toner for the printers
- The number of printers needed to print the tickets in the available time
They have gambled that keeping the option closed until today, will save them having to print 300-500 tickets (pure guesswork on my part).
Whatever this number is, it will relieve an already pushed to the limit process.
Not ideal but probably the least worse option.
I'm thinking the same. I've received Christmas cards that are franked last Friday, but not my tickets yet.From what very limited post I have received, it would seem that the RM are working on parcels and tracked first, and then from the top down on the backlog rather than from the bottom up, so that the earlier something was posted, the less chance you have of receiving it anytime soon.
the twitter post above has a link in it which appears to be club websiteIt seems odd that there’s nothing on the club website - it’s like they don’t think it’s a problem.
We've had two letters in two weeks, one of which was a Christmas card posted in France last week!I'm thinking the same. I've received Christmas cards that are franked last Friday, but not my tickets yet.