How long does Nationwide Cashcard take to arrive?

taless

Hi,

I would be grateful if anyone could give me a rough idea about when do they receive their Nationwide Cashcard. My FlexAccount has been on "Waiting for ID/Signature" for a long time, until today when it changed to "Account opened".

1) Do you think I will be able to receive them on/before next Thursday?

2) Do you need to 'sign for' when receiving the card, or do they just pop the card into your mailbox?

3) How do I register for Nationwide's Online Banking?

Thanks a lot for your sharing! I will be going abroad on Friday next week so will be great if I have some rough idea about it. Cheers.

Mark7799

Ring up Nationwide and ask them?

taless

Thanks Mark7799,

Yes I've asked them and the branch just said, hopefully I'll receive it by then.

I'm just trying to see what other forum user's experiences are!

gt94sss2

taless wrote: »

3) How do I register for Nationwide's Online Banking?

If you need Online Banking while you are abroad, register for Nationwide Internet banking now - as it can take upto 5 days for them to post you your login details..

Regards
Sunil

morg_monster

They send it by secure courier.
Someone has to sign for it: anyone can, but they must show proof of YOUR ID (passport or driving licence etc). Since you don't know when it is coming, if you are at work all day, you will not find a calling card through your door (no that would be too insecure, tho maybe just cos I live in a block), but instead they send out a letter telling you they tried to deliver and failed. You then are directed to a website where you input your tracking number and a passcode from the letter, and request a new delivery day (good luck with getting a saturday delivery), and if you want can provide a new delivery address, ie work, and your mobile number. The day you are expecting them to come, they will probably not come at all and you will arrive at work at 9 and stay til 6pm for no reason. You will ring their telephone line to complain and be told they don't know what happened. You try again. This time it does arrive, bike-couriered by this cool guy with dreads if you are in central london.
If you are really lucky, it's a joint account and your OH is too pathetic to organise his own redelivery, so you have to sort that out too. Then you will unexpectedly get the same company trying to deliver your new HSBC card the next day, but can they organise to get them both delivered to you on the same day, no, so you have to go through the whole bl**dy thing again!

Bitter, moi?! To be fair to them though it is the very secureness (?) of the system which causes all these probs, so can't really complain too much.

taless

Thanks for your replies.

Can I instruct them to send it to a Nationwide branch, as what I can do with Lloyds TSB?

System

It would depend where you live, they mostly send them through the post.
I would have thought this was especially the case in terms of the cash card, rather than debit card.

I would expect is about 4 post days after ordering - i.e. mon - sat

gt94sss2

morg_monster wrote: »

They send it by secure courier.
Someone has to sign for it: anyone can, but they must show proof of YOUR ID (passport or driving licence etc).

Interesting - my dad was home today and he got two Nationwide debit cards delivered - each for a separate account (and each by a different courier!) - as part of their card replacement strategy due to Nationwides planned introduction of Card Readers

However, he wasn't asked for any ID (only one card was for him) and normally nobody is home so we just find cards put through the letterbox (if its a courier) or they just come in the post

Might be different as its a house and not a block of flats..

Regards
Sunil