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  • katsu
    katsu Posts: 5,017 Forumite
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    Monmouthshire want a cheque sending through - I no longer have an account with a chequebook. I thought I would save the planet when we last switched so didn't appply for one. Anyone been able to get them to agree to take a payment by standing order or other means?
    Debt at highest: £8k. Debt Free 31/12/2009. Original MFD May 2036, MF Dec 2018.
  • pearl123
    pearl123 Posts: 2,082 Forumite
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    It's a pity Monmouthshire BS could not update its systems, so that we don't have to write checks.
  • Fingerbobs
    Fingerbobs Posts: 1,702 Forumite
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    katsu wrote: »
    Monmouthshire want a cheque sending through - I no longer have an account with a chequebook. I thought I would save the planet when we last switched so didn't appply for one. Anyone been able to get them to agree to take a payment by standing order or other means?
    Will your bank print you a one-off cheque if you pop into a branch? Nationwide did this for me a few months ago for my FlexAccount.
  • It's not that you don't have an account with a chequebook, it's that you didn't ask for one. All current accounts can have a chequebook supplied if you ask for one.

    Or, if you have any accounts with a Building Society, including Nationwide, they can issue one drawn on your account over the counter.
  • Is the Monmouthshire BS Celebration an in branch only opening account? Shame as it looks good, but I live nowhere near a branch.
  • Fingerbobs
    Fingerbobs Posts: 1,702 Forumite
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    Is the Monmouthshire BS Celebration an in branch only opening account? Shame as it looks good, but I live nowhere near a branch.
    It is now. It was open for online applications for a short time just before Easter, but the online option was quickly removed.
  • Oh well. I'd have stopped funding my Nottingham Building Society Sunshine Regular Saver, which is 2.3% but has a term of 17 months of which I have 7 left, and opened this one instead.
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    It's not that you don't have an account with a chequebook, it's that you didn't ask for one. All current accounts can have a chequebook supplied if you ask for one.

    Not if you're with one of the modern digital only banks, who don't issue chequebooks altogether.
  • glider3560 wrote: »
    Not if you're with one of the modern digital only banks, who don't issue chequebooks altogether.

    I think a tiny minority only have one account which is app or online based only with no accounts elsewhere. Tesco Bank and First Direct offer them.
  • katsu
    katsu Posts: 5,017 Forumite
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    Fingerbobs wrote: »
    Will your bank print you a one-off cheque if you pop into a branch? Nationwide did this for me a few months ago for my FlexAccount.
    That is inspired feedback Fingerbobs. I will go into the branch and find out - I have a nationwide account so I can ask them. :money:
    Debt at highest: £8k. Debt Free 31/12/2009. Original MFD May 2036, MF Dec 2018.
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