When I read the letter from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Registry of Shipping and Seamen department, my heart sank. They were going digital.
There’s a cartoon doing the rounds on Facebook: a woman at a railway ticket office, with the clerk saying something along the lines of ‘OK, you just go home, log on to our website, create an account, buy your ticket with your credit card and download it to your smartphone, then come back at your train
