Do banks print off cheques for customers?

pmduk

Heng_Leng wrote: »

Post Orders are very expensive; they will charge a % of the cash amount

It depends on the amount to be sent. Most postal orders are less than the £10 already quoted.

Goldiegirl

In the distant past when I worked for Barclays, a cashier could draw a bankers draft or issue an 'emergency cheque book' a book of about 10 non personalised cheques.

As I recall, there wasn't an option to have just one 'emergency cheque'. I don't think they would allow it now either - it would mean more manual processing, and would cost more in man hours. In this days of electronic payments, I think they'd expect people to be sending their money via their internet banking.

stclair

Maybe ask someone trusted friend or family member to write you a cheque and give then the money, alternatively send a postal order.

Yorkie1

Some years ago now, but I've had an emergency cheque book from LTSB - about 5 or 10 cheques.

richard9991

DannyWhoWorks wrote: »

Thank you.




Is this done online? I had to go back to University pretty quickly and left everything at home except my wallet. so I do not have my online account details and pin machine either

you can do a faster payment in branch.

System

They had the account details hand written; banks have only accepted fully pre-printed cheques for some time now.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

In the distant past, when I worked for Barclays, a cashier could draw a bankers draft or issue an 'emergency cheque book' a book of about 10 non-personalised cheques.

I'm working on the basis the OP wants to send more than a few pounds

pmduk wrote: »

It depends on the amount to be sent. Most postal orders are less than the £10 already quoted.

pmduk

The price of a postal order is capped at £12.50

rb10

Phone Barclays, ask them to send the money as a faster payment.

thenudeone

In the 1980s It was the case that most bank branches had a machine to encode the cheque value onto the bottom of every cheque and every bank giro credit slip deposited, in special computer-readable characters and ink; before they were sent to the clearing centres. They also kept a stock of blank cheques with the branch address on, which they could print the required data for a new cheque (apart from the name) and provide a small book of emergency cheques for customers to use.

I suspect it's much less easy to get one nowadays because:
-debit cards mean far fewer cheques are used or needed, so demand for such a service shoudl be very very low.
-the encoding may now be done at a central services function
-banks discourage the use of cheques don't want to make it easier to use them