On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:56 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > In some it's the other way around, every machine transaction costs > you, > teller transactions are free. It was a big deal when Citibank decided > to go with the charges for teller access, but no one seems to > notice the > per transaction charge on an ATM transaction.
Interesting. Our banks decided during the 90s that keeping branches open was too costly, so they closed pretty much everything outside of major urban centres, and did a pretty serious downsizing of what was left. There was an uproar, but it was basically ignored. To encourage us to use machines, we're charged $3.00 for teller transactions, while machine transactions are often free. Around 10 years ago I needed a bank cheque written so I went to the closest branch, and they had a staff member in the waiting area whose job it was to ask people why they need to use a teller instead of the machine on the outside wall. I'd have found that job pretty demoralising, as it's encouraging the customers to give the bank a reason to downsize you and your colleagues... - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
