Cash & Cashless 💰💰💰

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Although the banks take their cut for paying cash in 🙄
Seems there's some that don't still maybe as Google says this :unsure:


Does the Post Office charge for cash deposit?


Is there a fee for making cash deposits at a Post Office branch? No charges are taken at the counter however some banks may charge for this service. Please contact your bank directly to check if they do.
 
Seems there's some that don't still maybe as Google says this :unsure:


Does the Post Office charge for cash deposit?


Is there a fee for making cash deposits at a Post Office branch? No charges are taken at the counter however some banks may charge for this service. Please contact your bank directly to check if they do.
The charges here are tiny compared to a card transaction... Same with a cheque's 54 cent regardless of size on a 5k card payment I'd often pay between 70-100 euro it's the banks who are really pushing cashless 👍
 
No shit sherlock :unsure:



EU in turmoil as huge row erupts with 'Big Brother' fears over digital euro​


There are a number of concerns. One is that EU citizens may take unkindly to having a digital currency imposed upon them by unelected technocrats in Frankfurt. One Brussels-based executive told Politico: "You can create something in an ivory tower, but will it actually be used in a market?"

There are also fears over the unintended consequences of the cap placed on how much digital currency EU citizens can carry in their "wallets".

Raise the cap too high and EU consumers could pull huge sums from traditional banks into their digital wallets during a crisis. This, in turn, would spark widespread financial chaos and even jeopardise the banking system itself.

Then there is the concern that if member states set the limit, they could set the limit too low and become a de facto "Big Brother" state, exerting tight controls on the financial freedom of its citizens.
 
Do you have a one legged cousin who wants to study in the U.K. but will give me one million dollars if I send him £500 pounds :unsure:
 
I find a hybrid model works best. I need a£1 coin for a locker at my swimming pool and for shopping trolleys at Sainsbos. I also prefercasht for tipping in many cases.

But

The GWR snack trolley only does plastic. And cards are useful for stuff like food shopping where my bill can be less than a hundred (as it was last time) or over £200, as it was the time before.

And I don't like carrying large amounts of cash, as I am prone to lose stuff!
 

Europe Restricts Cash Payments: These Are the New Maximum Amounts Allowed​



The European Union has introduced new regulations aimed at limiting large cash payments, signalling a significant step toward modernizing financial oversight across its 27 member states.
 
Some reality of the digital cashless age


This morning our technical department circulated a notice from the FSA about potential fraud where crooks are targeting food businesses, placing orders pretending to be from genuine companies and getting product delivered to other destinations.

Two hours later, I answered the phone ti a woman asking if we could supply salmon portions and prawns. I said yes, but we get a lot of calls from restaurants and the like who are just looking for 20kg or something. I asked what kind of quantity she’s looking for as we deal in container loads, 20 tons plus. She said yeah so do we…then asked if we can take credit cards 🤣
A container of salmon portions would be £150k and no one buys those with a CC. I said the traders were in a meeting, which was correct; took her number which she read out and matched the one on our phones display, and asked her what company she was from. She said Coston Hall. I told her a trader would call her back.
So I googled Coston Hall and it came up with costonhalldairy.co.uk - check it out.
I phoned their number and spoke to the owner and told him what had happened. He said he’s spent the past couple of weeks dealing with shit. They’d been ordering seafood (a company in the industry lost £28k of smoked salmon through it) £10k of Christmas trees - another firm narrowly avoided losing £20k worth of trees. And a shitload of products.
I interrupted the traders meeting ti tell them, and while I was doing that another colleague answered the phone and it was the scumbags wanting to place an order 😁
When I was talking to the guy at Coston Hall I said do you want the phone number I’ve got, and he said no - the police aren’t interested even though he’s be on at them for two weeks.
What the fuck do the police do now? This mirrors my experience with them on the baseball bat night - “oh, they’ll be well away by now”.
 
This morning our technical department circulated a notice from the FSA about potential fraud where crooks are targeting food businesses, placing orders pretending to be from genuine companies and getting product delivered to other destinations.

Two hours later, I answered the phone ti a woman asking if we could supply salmon portions and prawns. I said yes, but we get a lot of calls from restaurants and the like who are just looking for 20kg or something. I asked what kind of quantity she’s looking for as we deal in container loads, 20 tons plus. She said yeah so do we…then asked if we can take credit cards 🤣
A container of salmon portions would be £150k and no one buys those with a CC. I said the traders were in a meeting, which was correct; took her number which she read out and matched the one on our phones display, and asked her what company she was from. She said Coston Hall. I told her a trader would call her back.
So I googled Coston Hall and it came up with costonhalldairy.co.uk - check it out.
I phoned their number and spoke to the owner and told him what had happened. He said he’s spent the past couple of weeks dealing with shit. They’d been ordering seafood (a company in the industry lost £28k of smoked salmon through it) £10k of Christmas trees - another firm narrowly avoided losing £20k worth of trees. And a shitload of products.
I interrupted the traders meeting ti tell them, and while I was doing that another colleague answered the phone and it was the scumbags wanting to place an order 😁
When I was talking to the guy at Coston Hall I said do you want the phone number I’ve got, and he said no - the police aren’t interested even though he’s be on at them for two weeks.
What the fuck do the police do now? This mirrors my experience with them on the baseball bat night - “oh, they’ll be well away by now”.
If they see your rant you’ll be in the slammer 😮
 
This morning our technical department circulated a notice from the FSA about potential fraud where crooks are targeting food businesses, placing orders pretending to be from genuine companies and getting product delivered to other destinations.

Two hours later, I answered the phone ti a woman asking if we could supply salmon portions and prawns. I said yes, but we get a lot of calls from restaurants and the like who are just looking for 20kg or something. I asked what kind of quantity she’s looking for as we deal in container loads, 20 tons plus. She said yeah so do we…then asked if we can take credit cards 🤣
A container of salmon portions would be £150k and no one buys those with a CC. I said the traders were in a meeting, which was correct; took her number which she read out and matched the one on our phones display, and asked her what company she was from. She said Coston Hall. I told her a trader would call her back.
So I googled Coston Hall and it came up with costonhalldairy.co.uk - check it out.
I phoned their number and spoke to the owner and told him what had happened. He said he’s spent the past couple of weeks dealing with shit. They’d been ordering seafood (a company in the industry lost £28k of smoked salmon through it) £10k of Christmas trees - another firm narrowly avoided losing £20k worth of trees. And a shitload of products.
I interrupted the traders meeting ti tell them, and while I was doing that another colleague answered the phone and it was the scumbags wanting to place an order 😁
When I was talking to the guy at Coston Hall I said do you want the phone number I’ve got, and he said no - the police aren’t interested even though he’s be on at them for two weeks.
What the fuck do the police do now? This mirrors my experience with them on the baseball bat night - “oh, they’ll be well away by now”.
Nowadays I think you have to call Angela Rippon or Dominic Littlewood to get stuff like that sorted out, but for the latter you would probably need Google translate, or a universal translator from Star Trek (I've got a couple, might let one go, with payment via bank transfer........)
 
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I’m probably my own worst enemy in many ways. In terms of cash, I rarely use it; having to get some is a bit inconvenient. Have to get some today in fact to pay my barber. He openly wants cash saying its because he doesn’t declare the earnings. I know a few self employed of various trades who do the same. All are obviously advocates of keeping cash. I like the convenience of using apple pay etc, but I don’t like the way this country is going on many levels. I think we should keep both.
 
I’m probably my own worst enemy in many ways. In terms of cash, I rarely use it; having to get some is a bit inconvenient. Have to get some today in fact to pay my barber. He openly wants cash saying its because he doesn’t declare the earnings. I know a few self employed of various trades who do the same. All are obviously advocates of keeping cash. I like the convenience of using apple pay etc, but I don’t like the way this country is going on many levels. I think we should keep both.
You should support any English citizen who runs a business and declines to fund the illegitimate UK government through taxation.

Goat, if I had seen that statement written down twenty years ago I would have gone ballistic at the author.
 
You should support any English citizen who runs a business and declines to fund the illegitimate UK government through taxation.

Goat, if I had seen that statement written down twenty years ago I would have gone ballistic at the author.
I get that, but I’m a bit envious because I get taxed until my eye balls spin.
 
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