Lordship Lane Post Office Closure

[Moovart]

And just by coincidence I tried to scan the cheques in to my account today but the app wouldn't scan so my bank told me I would have to go to a branch or to the post office as they couldn't work out what the problem was. Hah!  

[sebastiondangerfield]

Santander only allow you to scan a cheque under£1000.

And believe me there are still people around Dulwich who pay for services by cheque.

[Penguin68]

Cheques are still the safest way to send money to others if you want to make a 'thing' of it. At Christmas or birthdays a card with a cheque is the most effective present to distant god children or extended family, for instance when you don't know what they have or need - made out to the parent if you don't think they have an account yet. Of course you can use electronic transfer, often, to parents if you set it up, but that doesn't quite have the impact of a cheque in the post. So a cheque still has a use, I believe, even when you have very much reduced your cheque writing for other purposes.

[vladi]

You can use PayPal to send money and it is free of charge if you chose to send it as a gift to friends or family.

[Spartacus]

37 minutes ago, vladi said:

You can use PayPal to send money and it is free of charge if you chose to send it as a gift to friends or family.

You can 

But you can't put PayPal in a card like you can with a cheque or postal order  🙄 

[Pugwash]

I am a signatory of a trust fund which requires 2 out of 3 signatories, The investment company who manages the fund pay into the account by BACs but we pay the trust reciprocates by cheque.  

[Cyclemonkey]

When they were very little I transferred money in my nephew and niece's savings accounts and wrote a little voucher to put in the card.

Now they are a bit older I put half in to their savings accountd and half on to their Go Henry cards.  Children neither know nor care about cheques.

As for Postal Orders  last time I checked I'm not in an Enid Blyton novel 😆

Edited 6 hours ago by Cyclemonkey

[Spartacus]

55 minutes ago, Cyclemonkey said:

When they were very little I transferred money in my nephew and niece's savings accounts and wrote a little voucher to put in the card.

Now they are a bit older I put half in to their savings accountd and half on to their Go Henry cards.  Children neither know nor care about cheques.

As for Postal Orders  last time I checked I'm not in an Enid Blyton novel 😆

And that's your choice, but it's not everyone's choice. 

Some people don't like or can't do what you do. 

[Cyclemonkey]

Indeed so.  Just noting there are other options and many children and indeed young adults may well be perplexed and/or irritated by a cheque. 

[Moovart]

It is important that children and young adults should not be irritated when given money as a gift 😕

[Sue]

My grandchildren would be most bemused if they were sent a cheque! 

And what a faff! They would have to pay it into a bank anyway, wouldn't they? How does that work, if they don't have a bank account?

Even if they do,  sending money by BACS is quicker and easier. You don't have to spend an arm and a leg to buy a stamp, and the money  can't get "lost" or delayed in the post.

They have the use of the money immediately, buy something they want with it, then tell me/show me  what they bought.

Better all round for everybody, in my opinion, though I accept everybody is different.

I know people who still want to bring back pounds shillings and pence 🙄

[alice]

I just put cash in the envelope works for me

[Penguin68]

And for the crooked temporary Christmas Mail staff... Who I've seen holding envelopes up to the light to check their contents.