withdrwel of cheque guarantee

[dogtired]

Has any one else noticed the signs every where about shops, post office etc not accepting cheques?
I ask because I have an older friend who is very worried about it, she has, she says, never had any other way she paid things, has had no problems with it until she went to pay her TV licence and the post office would not accept her cheque.
She is really upset about it and I told her to have a word with her bank but can she do anything else?
Seems to me the banks are disrgarding customers yet again!

[pfloyd]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

Banks have axed cheque guarantees - hence shops no longer accepting cheque as payment.

Frustrating for those who have been used to paying via cheque for years and years.

[enaid]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

Your friend should have had notification form her bank about this, here is the info about it

The Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme announces closure date of 30th June 2011
Today the 24 bank and building society members of the UK Domestic Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme have announced that the Scheme will close on 30th June 2011, meaning that it will no longer be possible to guarantee a cheque under the Scheme after this date. The decision to close the Scheme was taken by the Payments Council in June this year as guaranteed cheque use is in terminal decline. The Payments Council concluded that it was in all parties’ interests to manage the Scheme’s demise in a coordinated fashion following extensive consultation with guaranteed cheque users and acceptors. This announcement does not mean the end of cheques as businesses will continue to be able to accept them and customers will still be able to write them.

During the next two years, those banks and building societies who provide cheque guarantee services will ensure businesses who still accept guaranteed cheques, and personal customers who still write them, are made aware of the closure date, and that they are given information about the alternatives.
UK Payments Administration - The Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme announces closure date of 30th June 2011

[The Debt Star]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

Seems to me the banks are disrgarding customers yet again!

correctamundo.
and the next big blackmail from the banking/political system will be the forced introduction of the euro for mass use in this country, alongside sterling until that becomes obsolete as well.

[Turboman]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

I went to tax car this week at post office on the 1st July

and I offered to pay by cheque from an account where I don't have a debit card OR alternatively from another account where I have a Debit Card

and he says "use which you prefer" so I paid by cheque and he was happy

[dogtired]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

Thanks every one!
As she says next year she is 75 and wont have to pay it anyway, she just got the cash in the end and went to complain at her bank as she says she did not have any notification.

[leclerc]

Re: withdrwel of cheque guarantee

correctamundo.
and the next big blackmail from the banking/political system will be the forced introduction of the euro for mass use in this country, alongside sterling until that becomes obsolete as well.

To be honest, I did at the time the euro came out believe that we should be within the monetary system. Some of the argument around the issue were simply ridiculous, however, since the problems that have happened within the eurozone, I would say that there is absolutely no way that we would go into the euro at the moment and my example is Greece who would have had to have pulled out of the euro and gone back to the drachma if it had defaulted on debt. As it stands today, one agency have downgraded Portugal debt to "junk" because it believes they will need a second bail out. The Euro definitely will not come into operation in the lifetime of this parliament because there are so many reasons not to go into it and very few "advantages" to it apart from a standardised currency.