Originally Posted by
Jimgotkp
But was told that I had to pay $91 for another ticket since I lost it. I find this to be ridiculous since first of all it's a ticket and I'm sure it's not that hard to reprint it.
As
soitgoes has already noted, the ticket has cash value. Of course they are not charging you $91 for the little piece of paper the ticket is printed on; they are charging you $91 because you could have easily sold the ticket for $91 to someone else, told Amtrak that your cousin ripped it to shreds, and then tried to bilk the company out of another one. Why should they trust you? Maybe showing them the torn pieces would work.
Originally Posted by
Jimgotkp
Second of all, I don't think it's right to give passengers their departure AND return ticket on the same day.
A little ridiculous. First of all, if you're that bad at keeping track of tickets, you could have booked your trip as two one-ways (same price) and pulled each ticket right before the trip. Secondly, not that long ago, ALL travel tickets were issued on paper,
all at the same time for round-trips, and people managed to hang onto them just fine. Finally, it's hardly Amtrak's fault that you let the ticket get destroyed--take some responsibility.