Somebody has sent me a cheque. But the previous process of sticking it in the post with a bank giro credit form no longer seems to exist, at least with my bank. So WTF am I supposed to do?
Options appear to be
(1) Physically take it into a bank branch. Which is a much longer journey than the letter box, and is an unnecessary covid exposure risk, and isn't open 24/7 like the letter box.
(2) Download some app, spend however long it takes on the security theatre to get it to work, use that. And then lose the password so if I get another cheque in another several years' time I'll have to start all over again.
This process of gratuitously making things more difficult just for the fun of it is called #enshittification, isn't it?
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You have a bank branch ???
They all closed down, everywhere I try to access one on my visits to the UK.
There are no staff or costs now, there's a board of directors making a fortune and a call centre full of humans being exploited and that's about all banks are nowadays.
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@mafeesh That too. The branch I knew about has closed down, but I think there are others.
I last went into a bank branch when I wanted to move half a million pounds of someone else's money from one place to another, and they were not unreasonably concerned to verify that I was genuine.
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But at least you knew you were dealing with an actual moron, not a computer-generated idiot.
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