Credit Cards/Chip and Pin/ATM withdrawls

I have had a TSB standard card for many years. I did have a BarclayCard until they introduced an annual charge.

Well do you like them or not?

And are you going to tell me how you do that quoting thing? Please don't say you do it by hand......

Where else is 15 miles from a post box?

The rest of us can't afford one.

"Please do not adjust your mind, the fault is with reality."

No I wouldn't. Although I suppose I could drive to places for fun. There's a beach 1 and a half bloody hours away.

See if you can ge a Platinum. It's worth phoning the bank every year to see if you can better offers - higher limit, balance transfer offers, lower rates, etc.

They don't have an annual charge now. Loads of banks went through a phase of annual charges. Everyone closed their accounts and the charges were dropped.

"Peter Hucker" wrote

I know my postman & he knows me. But I don't know him well enough to be able to decide whether I "like" him or not. I wouldn't count him as a friend, and I wouldn't count him as an enemy.

There are many other people that could recognise me, but I wouldn't say were either friends or enemies.

"Peter Hucker" wrote

Certainly not my place - there's a postbox right outside on the street!

If you meant that I'm "...more likely to be hit by a bus walking home..." from the postbox, that's hardly likely as no buses go down our road!

But if I did post it here, the postman is quite likely to know it came from me - less than a dozen houses use that postbox...

"Peter Hucker" wrote

Mini Coopers are made by BMW now!

Anyway, I don't think you need to be "upper class" to be able to afford a BMW. In fact, wouldn't "upper class" people prefer something else?

Bugger. Still a very small risk.

ARGH! I read your "but nowadays a 15 mile walk home is just a bit too much" to mean from the postbox.

That's odd. Are there huge numbers of postboxes about, or are you in a remote area?

Like I can afford one of those either.

Depends how upper class. I am very slightly below the UK average wage at £17,500.

"Peter Hucker" wrote

That's all it takes!

"Peter Hucker" wrote

"Peter Hucker" wrote

Just the one, for our small collection of houses. "In the country!"

Yeah right. There's also a very small risk that your house will get hit by a thermonuclear weapon. How's your bunker?

Bastard.

I have a very similar box, I think. Just a little one on a pillar. But I suspect that there is very seldom any other letters to be collected from it than mine - judging from the empty "clunk" noise it makes when my letters drop in.

My next nearest box is a 20 minute walk away across the fields, at the local village. Which I sometimes use because "my" box is only emptied once a day and not at all at week-ends.

Yes, I know our postman - if the box is empty on a Monday, he will pop in for a cup of tea and to see if I have any post that needs to go. He sells stamps too..(I usually write to various relatives every week-end, so there is almost always letters to go on Monday - it isn't telepathy!)

LOL, rural life on Dartmoor is a little different than a flat in London..

At 15:00:09 on 07/01/2006, Peter Hucker delighted uk.finance by announcing:

AFAIK the majority of the upper class are nowhere near as wealthy as some of the working class, and a lot of the middle class.

At 07:10:27 on 07/01/2006, Peter Hucker delighted uk.finance by announcing:

Eh? The OP was made to both groups back on the 14th December.

What?

He removed uk.legal, which is the only one of the two I read.

It is all to do with the level of difficulty involved. If it would be easier to print £50 notes than forging a credit card, I cannot see why a criminal would take a more difficult option with more risk of being caught.

"Cynic" wrote

It might be easier to get value from (eg spend) a forged credit card than counterfeit 50's?

Being upper class may well correlate with being wealthy, but not as strongly as many think. Hence all these poor fellows having to admit tourists into their ancestral piles.

So yes, I would expect quite a few of the upper class to have to put up with driving only a BMW, and a 5-series at that. Perfectly adequate little family cars, don't you know. I used to drive one myself, until mum totalled it.

At 23:02:35 on 08/01/2006, Peter Hucker delighted uk.finance by announcing:

I thought that was pretty clear. Which bit did you not understand?

I am not employed by the bank and I do not want to be party to breaching the T&C of the card. If the bank wants me to do it, it will have to pay me for about 4 hours' work (my friend does not live near me, so there will be travelling involved). I am happy to do it for £500.

I am not employed by the bank and I do not want to be party to breaching the T&C of the card. If the bank wants me to do it, it will have to pay me for about 4 hours' work (my friend does not live near me, so there will be travelling involved). I am happy to do it for

====== It doesnt have to be you, unless your friend is 'Johhny One Mate'?

"And I get a pain in the neck".

Ronnie Corbett, in the famous sketch with Ronnie Barker and John Cleese.