cashing in premium bonds

patrickbateman

Hi, I want to cash in a fair amount of premium bonds. I have purchased them over a number of years in regular £100 blocks. I have obtained the form from the post office and now realise I need to post every single certificate they have sent me. This will require posting a large parcel, has anyone else ever done this and if so is there any way around this? What with the lousy return seems that purchasing in anything other than £5K blocks is a little pointless.

Seems a pretty poor process for selling, can't believe my holders number and the amount I want to cash in isnt enough info.

ManAtHome

Do you need to send the bonds - I have done in the past, but a mate claimed he was paid out even though he only sent the form with the serial numbers (can't remember the wording on the forms - was some time ago).

In theory, they should be able to pay out without the bonds - after all, they know where to send to send the cash if you win so must be able to cancel them providing name, address, holder number etc match.

seven-day-weekend

Can't you just say you have lost them? (But of course you kept a note of the numbers).

tessie_bear

when we cashed in we sent them all...what a pain of a job it is...i did think about phoning and saying id lost them....might be worth a try and see what they say