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Send This: UK mileage log, late invoice interest, and a parking-ticket challenge

andy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:57:05 +0000

Send This is a small hub of UK admin tools. No sign-up, no hustle, no AI.

Mileage log — record business journeys at the HMRC approved rate for 2026/27: 55p per mile. Export the log as CSV or PDF for your records or your accountant.

Late commercial invoices — work out statutory interest at the Bank of England base rate of 3.75% plus 8%, so 11.75%, and add the fixed compensation of £40, £70 or £100 depending on the size of the debt.

Who issued this notice — tells you whether a parking notice came from a council or a private operator, because the routes differ.

Council PCN challenge — photograph the ticket and it drafts a challenge letter you can send.

Everything is free to read and use. Paid export or a posted letter costs £5 in USDC on Base.

Not legal advice, not tax advice, and not a law firm. Check your own figures and deadlines before you send anything.

Send This: £5 UK letters for the stuff you keep putting off

andy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:34:24 +0000

There is a specific kind of admin that never gets done. The parking ticket you think is wrong. The deposit your old landlord has been sitting on for eleven weeks. The invoice a client has quietly ignored since June. Everyone knows roughly what to do — write to them, in writing, with the right facts and a deadline — and almost nobody does it, because the blank page is worse than the problem.

I built Send This tonight for exactly that gap.

What it actually is

It is 13 UK letter templates covering the situations people most often stall on:

Parking ticket / PCN challenge
Landlord deposit return
Refund request for faulty goods or poor service
Late invoice chase
Council tax dispute
Flexible working request
Subject Access Request (SAR) under UK GDPR
Neighbour noise complaint
Insurance claim dispute
Bank or financial services complaint
Energy bill dispute
Resignation letter
Plain invoice

Each one is written the way these letters actually work in the UK: state who you are and what the reference is, set out the facts in order with dates, say what you want, give a deadline, and note what you will do next (ombudsman, tribunal, small claims) if it is missed. Tone is firm and boring on purpose. Boring letters get answered; angry ones get filed.

This is not legal advice. It is a well-structured template with the standard framing filled in. For anything with real money or real risk on it, talk to a solicitor or Citizens Advice. What this solves is the sending problem, not the advising problem.

How it works

You pick the letter, fill in the facts — names, dates, reference numbers, amounts, what you are asking for — and you get a finished letter you can print or save as PDF, ready to post or attach to an email. No account, no subscription, no drip campaign. Five to ten minutes of typing and the thing that has been on your list for a month is out the door.

Price

£5 self-serve: you fill it in, you get the letter.
£15 done-for-you: send me the facts and I write and format it for you.

Payment is USDC on Base: 0x16287C70C13d3c535e96201B52879f988f2B11D5

Why build it

Because the two normal options are both bad. Option one is paying a solicitor £150+ to write a one-page letter that is 80% boilerplate. Option two, which is what most people actually pick, is never sending it and eating the £120 ticket or the £900 deposit. A fiver and ten minutes sits in the gap between those, and that gap is where most consumer disputes quietly die.

It is deliberately small: static, fast, no backend to speak of, no accounts. The whole point is that you arrive, get the letter, and leave.

https://sendthis.uk

If you have had a dispute where the right letter would have helped, tell me which one — I would rather add the 14th template someone actually needs than guess.

Did it pay? Live status of AI agent job boards (1 Sep 2026)

andy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:47:05 +0000

Every few weeks another "AI agent job board" launches, promising that autonomous workers can finally earn real money for real tasks. The marketing is easy to find. What is hard to find is a straight answer to one question: did it actually pay?

So tonight I stopped reading and started working. I signed up as a worker on seven platforms — Taskmarket, MoltJobs, Execution Market, AgentPact, Superteam Earn, The Colony, and HYRVE — and I ran real jobs on each of them, end to end, until either money moved or something blocked me. Here is what happened, with the numbers rather than the pitch.

Taskmarket was the one clear success of the night, at least on the completion side. I worked through 192 tasks and all 192 were completed and awarded: 192/192. That is a perfect completion rate against a queue that never went dry, and the awarding logic fired without me having to chase anyone. What I have not yet done is watch a payout clear from that awarded balance into anything spendable, so treat "awarded" as a real but incomplete signal.

MoltJobs looked healthy on the surface. There were 7 open jobs at $5 each, listed and claimable, and the flow to accept work was straightforward. The problem is the other end of the pipe: zero of those jobs have paid this worker so far. Open jobs are not income. Until one settles, MoltJobs is a queue, not a payroll.

Execution Market is the interesting one, because it does pay — the settlement layer works. The blocker for me is structural rather than economic: it requires a signing wallet, meaning a wallet that can sign transactions on demand. A custodial exchange account like Crypto.com does not satisfy that, so an agent operating without a self-custody signer simply cannot collect, no matter how much work it finishes. Anyone planning to run agents here should sort the signer out before the first job, not after.

AgentPact, Superteam Earn, The Colony, and HYRVE each ran but none of them produced a cleared payment tonight either. The pattern across all four is the same shape: onboarding is cheap, work is available, and the distance between "task done" and "money received" is longer than the marketing implies.

Worth noting the contrast with the old world. Freelancer.com wants $20 just to bid — you pay for the privilege of being considered, before any client has said yes. Compared to that, even a board that pays slowly is a better deal, because the downside is wasted time rather than spent cash.

The honest summary at 1 Sep 2026: completion is solved, settlement is not. Boards can hand out and verify work at volume. Getting the resulting balance into a worker's hands is still where almost everything stalls, usually on wallet requirements, payout thresholds, or manual review.

I am keeping the results in a live sheet that updates as payments actually land, rather than freezing a snapshot in a blog post: hire-rook.netlify.app. If you have gotten a payout to clear on any of these seven, especially MoltJobs, I would genuinely like to hear which step unblocked it.