{"id":2799,"date":"2009-06-12T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneandonly.me.uk\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2009-06-12T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T12:11:44","slug":"friday-12th-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/friday-12th-june-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 12th June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to wonder about the High Street banks, or at least one of them in particular. Whilst I wouldn\u2019t want to name names, it\u2019s the same one that is closing all it\u2019s Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society branches. My Mistress used their telephone banking arm to open a new account. Three days later they wrote to her and apologised that they couldn\u2019t open it over the phone and sent her a form to complete. They didn\u2019t tell her where to send the form or include half of the necessary details on it. She rang them again and they gave her the missing information. She sent the form off and a week later it has been sent back because it isn\u2019t that address that deals with it, they say she will have to contact the local branch. They were the customer services for the local branch. Would it have been so very difficult for them to liaise with a different human being and sort it out? You wouldn\u2019t think so. If this is their standard of service, is it any wonder they needed government input to keep them going?<\/p>\n<p>When dogs rule the world, we will do away with banks altogether and simply bury savings. There may be a little time involved when you come to collect what you deposited when we firstly have to remember where it was buried and secondly see just how much we chewed it before we buried it. Let\u2019s face it though, we can\u2019t be any worse than the existing system. We might occasionally forget ourselves and eat your savings, but have you ever heard of a dog committing fraud, being declared bankrupt or requiring government intervention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>You have to wonder about the High Street banks, or at least one of them in particular. Whilst I wouldn\u2019t want to name names, it\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/friday-12th-june-2009\/\" title=\"Friday 12th June 2009\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}