Jeremy Double wrote:

Neil Williams wrote:

In the UK it is also conventional that you notify your bank if you
intend on travelling abroad.

Since when? I never do.

Me neither. I've never had a transaction refused abroad, whereas
occasionally I _have_ had it happen in the UK, especially _after_ chip
and pin, annoyingly. At least as far as the RBS seems concerned, I ought
to notify them when I intend spending my money in half a dozen shops
within an hour!

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