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  2. From: ian@festival.ed.ac.uk (Ian Turton)
  3. Newsgroups: scot.general
  4. Subject: Re: Left handed compliments to the Royal Bank
  5. Message-ID: <23885@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 17 Jul 92 14:21:25 GMT
  7. References: <6973@skye.ed.ac.uk> <NICK.92Jul17133009@vaila.ed.ac.uk>
  8. Sender: nntpusr@castle.ed.ac.uk
  9. Distribution: scot
  10. Lines: 39
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  12. nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
  13.  
  14.  
  15. #        In article <6973@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
  16.  
  17. #       Anyone with an account at the Royal Bank of Scotland will have received<
  18. #      a note with their most recent bank statement giving information about<
  19. #        their Complaints and Compliments leaflets, which are now to hand in<
  20. #                                      branches.<
  21. #                                           <
  22. #      When I got mine, I unfortunately forgot that I had recently been charged<
  23. #     8 pounds for being 25 pounds overdrawn for 3 days, and that a few days<
  24. #      after that I had been charged 25.60 pounds for 25 Irish pounds' worth of<
  25. #    Irish currency, worth 22.75 UK pounds.  So I wrote `Why can't we have left<
  26. #                  handed cheque books?' on my form and returned it.<
  27. #                                           <
  28. #     Seems a reasonable request to me.  Anyone else want to add their voice<
  29. #                                       to mine?<
  30.  
  31.  
  32. #      I remember asking about this in some English bank some eight or ten years
  33. #                                 ago. The staff thought it was extremely funny.
  34.  
  35. #      Some of the banks (TSB perhaps) have cheque stubs that you write parallel
  36. #           to the spine rather than away from it, which is a reasonable move...
  37.  
  38.          or the RBS infact 
  39.  
  40. #                                                                          Nick.
  41. #--
  42. #  Nick Rothwell, LFCS, Edinburgh | "Say, how many contemporary dancers are
  43.  
  44. Ian (right handed)
  45.  
  46. --
  47. Ian Turton                                Dept of Geophysics and geology
  48. ian@uk.ac.edinburgh                       JCMB, Kings Buildings
  49.                                           Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh,UK
  50.      ***If you don't like my views sue my boss, he'll love it.***
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