I recall exchanging pleasantries with an ASC at Waddington a while after “his” aircraft had been lost in an accident:

“Hello Chief, busy?” I asked
He replied “What I want to know is why I can be issued with a Vulcan on a single stores voucher but when you come to write one off it takes a stack 4 feet high all requiring my signature!”

:)exmpa

Some of the stuff written off you can understand why they crashed in the first place, they would never get airborne with all the “extras” they were carrying to “tidy up” peoples Inventories…
When the Atlantic Conveyor sank, RAF Odious cleared the Stations misplaced items in one pop, ohh it was on the Conveyor was the saying of the day… :p