Friday before last I deposited a cheque into my basic, no-frills, we-give-you-Solo-coz-you’re-a-credit-free-zone account. It was for a piffling amount. It shouldn’t matter. It cleared today. TODAY. It went in on the 11th and it’s now the 21st. Two weekends in there, but don’t tell me computers can’t work weekends?
What gives? And why does the money clear my account the same minute when I draw from a cash machine? Why doesn’t that take 10 days? How do the banks get away with it?
These are the same fuckers who didn’t process a giro in time, missing a direct debit instated at great insistence by BT to “save me money” by a single day. The bill was for £50. The charge levied by the bank, because my giro was processed by them a day late was for £35. The giro went in the next day to cover the amount, but of course, by that time, the bank had raped me. Do they have any idea how much £35 means to me? Vile, thieving, penny-pinching scum. May they all rot in hell.
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