Bank drafts

I started off with a little pot. Which I filled, so I started another.
Not using a bank very much[1] I never got the little bags, so when the
second pot was full they were both emptied into a carrier and I started
again. The bag got put in the bottom of the wardrobe and kept getting
topped up. Eventually there was too much to bag up and take to the
bank anyway. This was over the course of about three years.

This is, of course, true. There was a nice little queue of onlookers
once I'd done all mine. I think most of them had a one or two small
money bags each.

[1] I tend to do everything on-line or use the cash/paying-in machines
outside of hours.

 

I'm astonished. What gives them the right to even ask, let alone
(imply they might) refuse to give youthe cash otherwise. I think I'd
be moving my account pretty damned sharpish if anyone did that to me.
It's my fucking money, after all.

One of the things I quite like about the Swiss is that they still
regard cash as a normal method of payment for large purchases like
cars, bikes etc. and that even a relatively small post office branch
can quite happily dish out 30-odd grand (Swiss) in notes without
batting an eyelid. 'Course, it helps that they have 1000 franc notes.

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This'll be anti-money laundering legislation, Sarbox, that sort of thing.

In Switzerland, you can buy motorcycles with big chunks of Nazi gold.

 

I did wonder myself.

 

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I'm amazed all the coins were still legal tender ;-))

 

Good point, well made.

 

sorry, I wasn't being clear - I was selling - this was /paying the
cash in/ to the bank.

Other than this, my bank have been fine over the years. I would
imaging the reason they balked at taking so much cash was either
forgery or money laundering.

whereas increasingly fewer places in the UK will accept anything
larger than a £20 note.

 

indeed - these days if I were selling a bike privately, I'd just try
and arrange a transfer from my online banking to the vendor's account.

 

No - I think I first heard it from Simon K.

 

Because all the change is in the pot, of course. Duh.

 

If I have the change on me, then I will.

What seems to happen is, for whatever reason, that eventually I'll end
up with a pocket full of change[1]. I'll take this out at home and put
it somwhere with keys, phone etc. When I come to go out again, I don't
automatically pick up all the change as I don't want to start off with
a pocket full of change. It then accumulates and gets put into a pot.

I won't keep change inside a wallet or use a manbag. YMMV. )

[1] This is especially true after a night in the pub.

 

I realised after I'd written the reply, but I decided to let the
comments stand. I _still_ don't see how they have any right. And if
it's, as stated elsewhere, due to guvmint legislation, then frankly
the country's in a worse state than I imagined.

Presumably down to forgeries. Dunno if the Swiss notes are more
difficult to forge or what.

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And it's amazing how often the shopkeeper will thank you for it,
'specially if you've got the whole lot in change.

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It has to do with the money-laundering rules - apparently it was a
favourite way for villans to convert their ill-gotten gains into clean
money:

Take sackful of dirty money to buy car (with false ID)
Hand over cash, drive car away
Sell car next day for nice clean, untraceable cash.

I suspect that will change too.

Phil.

 

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind as well, but if they don't also
have that facility its a pig to check if they've got the money. And
it's not immediate between banks either.

 

FERITE.
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<fx: hangs head>

 

can you explain the difference between a "wallet with a little coin
section" and a purse?