Damaged bank notes

mrsdwhite

Probably not in the right board but this is my 'home' board so I will post it here.
Occasionally either in our change or in my case in the business I work in we get handed damaged (torn, defaced, badly worn) bank notes and often just assume that they are useless and cannot be used. However I discovered tonight that it is possible to send them back to the Bank of England and they will then send a cheque for the amount of the damaged note(s).
I've not actually done it yet, I have a £5 going back to them tomorrow in the post. The link is here http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Pages/damaged_banknotes.aspx

It looks quite straight forward, I will keep you posted on what happens with the £5 I'm sending back (it has a chunk of it missing).
:money: :money:

tina_malteser

sticky tape we take torn notes alot as long as theyre not fake?? banks never ever had a probhere, they just incinerate and provide new into circulation so im told by the tellers

mrsdwhite

Sticky tape is fine if you have both parts of the note, this one has the edge missing but has it's serial number so can still be changed.

Butterfly_Brain

I just take any that I have to my local Barclays branch and they have always changed them for me