Monday 15 March 2010

Extortion

Plashing Vole lives in a rented burrow. It's above the waterline (and, unfortunately, a pizza joint). It costs rather a lot of money. I've just agreed to continue paying a lot of money to the rentier class for another year.

It turns out that I have to pay the agents for the privilege of paying more money. A new contract involves photocopying a contract of several pages and posting it - perhaps £2 in total. The charge: £68. If preparing and posting it took (at a generous guess) 5 minutes, that's an hourly rate of £816 - better than most lawyers.

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