"Clive." wrote in message
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Bout time the fiver was scrapped of and made coin only at one time if
you had a fiver in your pocket you felt you where rich but not any
more.
You can't even get them from the "wailing wall".

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

The BoE has loads of fivers, printed and ready to
ship, to replace all the tatty worn out notes that are
still circulated and the high street banks don't want
to take them.

tim

tim..... wrote
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Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

The BoE has loads of fivers, printed and ready to
ship, to replace all the tatty worn out notes that are
still circulated and the high street banks don't want
to take them.

If so it's because they too have no means of getting them into
circulation since they don't want to reload the ATMs aka hole in the
wall machines two or four times more often.

Why not cash a cheque over the bank counter and ask for new fivers ?

Because it would take ten minutes longer and eat into your lunch hour ?


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Mike D

In message 01c77f80$17483ca0$LocalHost@default, Michael R N Dolbear
writes
If so it's because they too have no means of getting them into
circulation since they don't want to reload the ATMs aka hole in the
wall machines two or four times more often.
When our local wailing wall had £5s and £10s it would always run out on
a Saturday lunch time. Now it has £10s and £20s it seems to be good
for the whole of the weekend.
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Clive.

When our local wailing wall had £5s and £10s it would always run out on
a Saturday lunch time. Now it has £10s and £20s it seems to be good
for the whole of the weekend.

Went into a cash machine inside a branch of Barclays today and upon
pressing the 'Any other amount' button was pleasantly surprised to see
at the bottom of the screen 'Notes available: £5 £10 £20.' Took out £75
in three denominations. I've never seen it before, anyway.

"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote in message
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tim..... wrote
[...]
Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

The BoE has loads of fivers, printed and ready to
ship, to replace all the tatty worn out notes that are
still circulated and the high street banks don't want
to take them.

If so it's because they too have no means of getting them into
circulation since they don't want to reload the ATMs aka hole in the
wall machines two or four times more often.

Why not cash a cheque over the bank counter and ask for new fivers ?

I personally would love to do this, but I bet if I did
they would still expect me to take 5 twenties

tim

tim..... wrote

"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote

If so it's because they too have no means of getting them into
circulation since they don't want to reload the ATMs aka hole in
the
wall machines two or four times more often.

Why not cash a cheque over the bank counter and ask for new fivers
?

I personally would love to do this, but I bet if I did
they would still expect me to take 5 twenties

It's the cashier's job to give you the denominations you ask for (in
the old days you wrote it on the back of the cheque).

They might only have old fivers of course so a visit to the Bank of
England might be necessary with 2 x £50.


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Mike D

tim..... ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

Crap.

ATMs aren't the only way notes get into circulation.

Many shops take wodges of 'em from the bank for till floats.

Adrian wrote:
tim..... ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying :

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.


Now that I think about it, there are a lot of worn fivers out there, and not
many worn tenners or twenties.

Crap.

ATMs aren't the only way notes get into circulation.

Many shops take wodges of 'em from the bank for till floats.

But if the banks aren't getting new fivers from the BoE, the shops are
getting old fivers from the banks.

"Adrian" wrote in message
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tim..... ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

Crap.

ATMs aren't the only way notes get into circulation.

Many shops take wodges of 'em from the bank for till floats.

There is an increasing tendency to get change in coins for a ten pound note,
with an apology for a lack of fivers, which bears out the theory that there
are less in circulation.

Paul

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:00:49 +0100, "Paul Scott"
wrote:


"Adrian" wrote in message
.245.131...
tim..... ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Which is itself a bigger problem as there would appear
to be no other way of getting them into circulation.

Crap.

ATMs aren't the only way notes get into circulation.

Many shops take wodges of 'em from the bank for till floats.

There is an increasing tendency to get change in coins for a ten pound note,
with an apology for a lack of fivers, which bears out the theory that there
are less in circulation.

I've noticed this several times in the last month, certainly.