Post by Peter MoylanI've just received a notice from my building society that says, inter
alia, that from June this year the option of having a passbook will no
longer be available.
Welcome to the club. I got a similar notice from TD-CT a few months
ago. They hadn't actually been providing passbook updates since the
pandemic got started, and they used that as their excuse to remove
the service: reducing the number of people needing to use a teller.
But it's only been in the last few years that you *needed* to go to
the teller for an update. Used to be you could do it at an ATM.
My CIBC accounts still have passbooks and their tellers continue to
update them -- the CIBC has also removed passbook updating from their
ATMs -- but the supply of new passbooks to my branch has apparently
been interrupted, so when one book fills up, it'll be "I'm sorry,
we can't do that".
Post by Peter MoylanEventually, I suppose, our plastic cards will disappear, and having
a mobile phone will become compulsory.
No, no, you'll need to have a microchip implanted, like the ones that
many pets now carry.
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