On 2008-02-09 17:40:59 +0000, David Hansen
said:

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:50:20 +0000 someone who may be Andy Hall
wrote this:-

What you are being asked to do is the local authorities work for them,
in order that they can reduce their costs

An interesting assertion. In fact most people have more collections
than they used to, but what is collected varies from collection to
collection. How these extra collections are cheaper I don't know and
you failed to state how they are cheaper last time.

The issue is not one of the number of collections, but the number of
useful collections required by the paying customer.