Property News · August 24, 2016

Banks are forgetting their social function | Letters


It is not only commercial banks that are creating problems (Communities count cost as high street banks vanish, 22 August). I act as treasurer to a small sports club and have, at the end of the summer, hundreds of pounds in match fees to bank in small change. Having changed to the Co-op Bank so that I could use the local post office, I found that my newly “modernised” post office no longer accepts Transcash, only paperless transactions. This affects not just me but also three churches with collections to bank, three schools with dinner money to bank, two clubs and two pubs with takings to bank and similarly a number of small shops. Fortunately, we have another, very friendly, helpful and “unmodernised” post office a mile and a half away.I am not an older person unwilling to embrace technology, but simply struggling to know how I feed all those 50p pieces into my computer. I appreciate that banks have their shareholders to consider, but I really thought that the Post Office was there to provide a public service.Ann HindleyCrowle, North Lincolnshire Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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