On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:23:53 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message 485cb360@qaanaaq, at 08:53:04 on Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Andy
Hall remarked:
Leaving aside the financial aspect, there are much better uses of
time than trips to the post office to spend 20p posting a letter.

That merely shows how extremely narrow your experience is.

On the contrary, the boot is on the other foot. It's a limited view
to be thinking of the lowest financial expenditure to have the lowest
cost when all factors, including how time are taken into account.

The majority of people have a fixed income, in the sense that their
salary is the same however many hours they work. Only the self employed,
or those who own companies (which amounts to the same) have the luxury
of being able to make a real tradeoff between time and earning potential.

For everyone else, an hour spent saving £5 is just as useful as an hour
spent earning £5.


Actually most of the people I've worked worked with in permanent
employment over the years have had some kind of overtime renumeration.