Which is the best bank for left-handers?

jandr

Royal Bank of Scotland also do them.

princess_avers_2

I drove past a billboard poster the other day stating Barclays now offer left handed cheque books

pin

I do remember a few years ago HSBC and Lloyds TSB had advertising promoting such.

In all fairness I hardly use cheques, in fact I don't like using them if I can avoid it (maybe its because they are such a pain, me been a leftie and all of that).

However it would be a nice "added bonus" to have a left hand cheque book (and even a paying in book), it would just make life that little bit easier and also so I could say "Proud to be different" (which Nationwide are not so much anymore).

Joe_Bloggs

Is there any reason to have a cheque book that is branded by a bank? Can we have generic cheque books in left and right handed versions issued by a central authority? The user of the cheque book can pay for it in someway, thus compensating others that don't use them. So much of the poor time performance of transfering money via cheque is accepted as standard in the BACS system.
It used to be possible to write a cheque on an egg ! What happened to that system ? I guess the photocopier was left a bit messy.
J_B. (Your left hand is what you hit with the hammer when you miss the nail !)

charlottesmum_2

Hi, this is my first post so be gentle with me. I'm a leftie and love my left handed cheque book (HSBC) - especially when I use it to pay in at the bank as it always confuses the cashier.
There is a way that the banks could please everyone. In America the cheque books have the spine along the top edge, rather than down the side. I can't think of another way to describe it, but I'm sure you all get what I mean. They also use carbon paper so you don't have to fill out the stub as well as the cheque. Easy eh? I saw all this when my friend was visiting her drive-thru bank....

worried_and_confused

charlottesmum wrote:

Hi, this is my first post so be gentle with me. I'm a leftie and love my left handed cheque book (HSBC) - especially when I use it to pay in at the bank as it always confuses the cashier.
There is a way that the banks could please everyone. In America the cheque books have the spine along the top edge, rather than down the side. I can't think of another way to describe it, but I'm sure you all get what I mean. They also use carbon paper so you don't have to fill out the stub as well as the cheque. Easy eh? I saw all this when my friend was visiting her drive-thru bank....

A drive-thru bank... those wacky americans :rotfl:

good idea about the cheque books with the spine on the top though.

worried_and_confused

pin wrote:

I do remember a few years ago HSBC and Lloyds TSB had advertising promoting such.

In all fairness I hardly use cheques, in fact I don't like using them if I can avoid it (maybe its because they are such a pain, me been a leftie and all of that).

However it would be a nice "added bonus" to have a left hand cheque book (and even a paying in book), it would just make life that little bit easier and also so I could say "Proud to be different" (which Nationwide are not so much anymore).

maybe its time to switch to a different current account provider... I think Alliance and Leicester are Martin's current 'best buy', does anyone know if they're leftie friendly?



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pin

worried_and_confused wrote:

maybe its time to switch to a different current account provider... I think Alliance and Leicester are Martin's current 'best buy', does anyone know if they're leftie friendly?



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However Nationwide are still the best is you travel a fair bit. Also I do like the fact they are a mutual, rather than a plc (although that really shouldn't mean much), but as the well worn saying goes: Proud to be different!!

However they have no branches in Jersey, which is a major problem for me.

Have you looked at First Direct, they are pretty good, and they are doing a £50 offer if you switch bank accounts.

PaleScene

I've always been very chuffed with my left-handed LTSB cheque book - and am happy when people comment on it, unlike all the 'ooh - isn't it cute/tiny/uncopyable/like a dead bug!' comments about my signature

Yes, I was a bit miffed on joining Nationwide to find they didn't do them, and by the time I signed up with Aliens & Leicester I didn't think about it (don't use many). I can ask them though. One thing about their books is they are stub-less - you write your details on a page at the front.

Lloyds is one of the worst banks for fixed position pens though - I have to do lots of audible tsk-ing while angling uncomfortably to use them...

I hadn't noticed the pin entering as a problem though - I seem to naturally use whichever hand is handy for that. And from childhood I've always used scissors right-handed.

It's nice to have fetched up among the right-brain-left-paw 10% of the population like an exclusive group!

always_saving_3

LTSB LH cheque book works for me, and as said earlier it is so funny when using cheque book to pay money in and cashier turns it around, only to have to turn it back again!!

However, when I enquired about LH paying-in book, they stated that they didn't do them - shame!