Oh how I agree with Jean in Poole on this issue. I was horrified to hear an assistant in my local supermarket ask a customer for their PIN ~ even more when the customer told the assistant what the PIN was so that she could key it into the pad. I normally pay with a debit card for which I don't have a PIN - food shopping is the only thing I use the card for - and I have no intention of asking the bank for one. I was once asked to write my address on the back of a cheque although I had a guarantee card which more than covered the amount of the cheque, on the grounds that it was "company policy". The assistant refused to accept the cheque without the address, I refused to pay for the goods in any other way and she then had to call a supervisor to delete the items from her till and apologise to the other people in the queue who had been kept waiting. If we all refuse to accept meekly measures that have been decreed are "for our own good" then maybe "the authorities" who decide these things will re-think. Joan from Yorkshire, stepping down from the soapbox before lauching into the changes in paying pensions and closures of post offices.
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