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Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now
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Also immortalised in the Billy Connolly song of that era - Three Men from Carntyne
Killingworth
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Letters, and the morning practice of opening the post with a weapon like this - worn down after many years of service in a large branch bank in Newcastle long since closed down. My father 'liberated' it after the messenger who used it every day retired, his name on the handle.
Later big offices got electric letter opening machines that sliced along the top of the envelopes and could cut letters in half if the fold was at the top of the envelope.
Later big offices got electric letter opening machines that sliced along the top of the envelopes and could cut letters in half if the fold was at the top of the envelope.
Not to mention slicing enclosed cheques at the same time.
Xenophon PCDGS
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The advert that asked "Go to work on an egg".
Cross City
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Watching scheduled broadcast television.
Was flicking through the TV guide on my dad's Sky box when I was round there the other week. 1000+ channels of absolutely nothing.
My question of "Why do you pay for this?" Was met with a deflated "dunno".
All you need now is a TV capable of running iPlayer, ITVX, 4od and cheap subscriptions to one of two streaming services which actually carry stuff you want to watch. Far cheaper and you're not paying for stuff you'll never watch or have seen millions of times before only shown at times not of your choosing.
Was flicking through the TV guide on my dad's Sky box when I was round there the other week. 1000+ channels of absolutely nothing.
My question of "Why do you pay for this?" Was met with a deflated "dunno".
All you need now is a TV capable of running iPlayer, ITVX, 4od and cheap subscriptions to one of two streaming services which actually carry stuff you want to watch. Far cheaper and you're not paying for stuff you'll never watch or have seen millions of times before only shown at times not of your choosing.
Ashley Hill
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Farmers carrying out controlled burning of corn stubble after harvesting.
Bradford PA
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Devised by the author Fay Weldon in her earlier career as an advertising copywriter..
Similarly, the "Naughty but nice" advert for cream cakes was created by Salman Rushdie.
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We used to play "splits" at school, this involved throwing a knife into the ground, trying to get it to stick in point first in a position where the other player could not reach it when only moving one foot from their standing position, thee were many knives carried at school for this purpose, I never heard of one being used for anything else.
I wrote a cheque yesterday.
My cheque book was issued in 2007 and I have used 7
I think anyone who has used a solicitor recently has written a cheque. They seem to still use delightfully old-school business methods. When I bought a property just last year the solicitor asked for my initial payment via cheque. At the end of the process, when it turned out there was money left over, they sent me a cheque for the remaining balance. Premium Bond wins as well - I had a £50 cheque from them around 6 months ago. My local bank still has a machine specifically for the paying in of cheques, that's how I paid mine in. Surely if there was no demand for that they'd have taken it out. So cheques definitely aren't dead yet!
Sir Felix Pole
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Newspapers. At Belfast Intl. Airport at the moment (flight delayed) - at the very large W. H. Smith not a single paper on sale.
I think all my payments relating to buying a house ended up being by bank transfer. This was in 2019, so perhaps some solicitors are more up to date than others.
Xenophon PCDGS
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There are still some charitable bodies who still ask for a cheque.
Dead? No. But definitely on the way out - down something like 90% since 2005.
Xenophon PCDGS
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In that case, what would be the bank's policy when a cheque plus the paying-in book duly filled in was presented. Would it be the responsibility of the banking sector to notify all companies/organisations who issue cheques that the facility was in the proces of being withdrawn. Will the relatively new system of post offices acting as banks also be terminated?
gg1
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I received my first cheque for at least 10 years a couple of months ago. The last time I wrote one was probably closer to 20 years ago.
Traditional Sky+ gives you the benefits of being able to download more high quality shows than you could ever watch, as well as being able to watch broadcast television in pretty much real time, but without the adverts.
I can watch an entire live Premier League or NFL game without interruption, no adverts, no presenter waffling, no injury delays, and if I time it right, I can catch the crucial last second score at the same time everyone else does.
And presumably because they're still a major player, Sky has Netflix, Paramount+ and other streaming services, so if I don't want to concentrate, I can stream a favorite lightweight sitcom on an uninterrupted advert free loop. Plenty to choose from.
I like Star Wars or Modern Family as much as the next man in their 40s, but not that much. I like money as much as the next man, but even £120 a month is good value for what I'm getting.
Sky is still the future, for people who actually had to live through the nightmare that was VHS and five channels. I'm going to enjoy it for as long as I can.
A previous target of withdrawing cheques by 2018 was abandoned and the banking sector pledged to continue to support them in perpetuity.
It may be that as their usage dwindles then banks reconsider how they handle cheques, possibly doing more image-based processing so there's less need to move bits of paper around.
I don't miss the stink of the smoke during August!
Cross City
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I'm mid 30s and have never written a cheque.
I've received a few but fortunately my bank can pay them in through taking a picture of it on my app.
Couldn't think of a more inconvenient method of payment.
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You can do that with a cheap RedZone subscription and see every score from every game. No need for a £60-100 a month Sky package.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Manchester Oldham Road railway goods depot still used shire horses in the early 1950s and I remember the wisps of feed straw on the area perimeter.
gg1
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Sadly mine doesn't, I had to pay it in the old fashioned way.
I'm about ten years your senior and have never written on either.
That's a rather curious idea, as it means the cheque remains in your possession after you have already cashed it. Just out of interest, what's to stop you from taking a second photo of the cheque the next day and paying it in again? And doing it again the day after?
I assume that banking systems would pick this up, but knowing how ancient the systems are........
Which is why, after 30 years, I am cancelling Sky next month. All I need is on the apps you've listed and I get Disney+ free with my bank account. For big live TV events there's Freesat, and I can come and go from Now TV as I please for sport like the F1.
Gosh - I wonder if the banks have completely forgotten to consider this possibility
Actually it works really well!
gg1
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IIRC all cheques have a unique reference number.
Cheques are numbered, are they not? The same cheque checks* are likely made as if it had been physically deposited.
*Czech cheque cheques if it's from a payer in Prague.
Killingworth
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Banking again.
Travellers cheques. I haven't used them for 20 years or more.
But before them, a World Letter of Credit. My wife's uncle arranged one of them from Lloyds Bank about 1966 when he was going to Germany to pick up new Mercedes. If memory serves correctly he got a large document that looked very like the one below. Most major banks did the same. Every branch authorised to make encashments against their agents letters had control documents with specimen examples like this so they could check authenticity and instructions on how to get reimbursement.
Travellers cheques. I haven't used them for 20 years or more.
But before them, a World Letter of Credit. My wife's uncle arranged one of them from Lloyds Bank about 1966 when he was going to Germany to pick up new Mercedes. If memory serves correctly he got a large document that looked very like the one below. Most major banks did the same. Every branch authorised to make encashments against their agents letters had control documents with specimen examples like this so they could check authenticity and instructions on how to get reimbursement.