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On Sat, 14 May 2011, Simon Waters wrote:
On 14/05/11 18:19, tom wrote:representation that 90% (why always 90%?...) of the last 20 years of computing effort can be ignored and we can advance electronic communications to the level they were 20 years ago but some (rich) idiots thought they'd make a killing selling us a victorian solution to a problem they made themselves.And even if you give up and email them a PDF document with your invoice and bank account details with a request to be paid by bank transfer, hoping merely to avoid the needless waste of paper and energy in moving information and money around, they still send you a cheque by post to the wrong payee, so three physical letters and a trip to the bank later.....
Ugh. I get this all the time. I hate people sending me cheques, but some people are just so old-fashioned.. The usual excuse is that is has to be signed by 2 people... I don't have a bank in the town I live in, so I need to drive to Ashburton or Newton Abbot, or use the weekly Nat West Bank Bus service (which now only stops for half an hour on Tuesedays )-:
I wish I could afford direct debit, but my bank won't give me the facilities (well, they will, but I need to lodge £12K in an escrow account first), or I can use an external processor, but the fees involves vs. the number of customers who I could persuade to use direct debit wouldn't make it worth it )-:
People are locked into old habits, it will take at least one generation....
Indeed. Fortunately more and more people are not accepting cheques anymore, so hopefully soon I'll be able to reject cheques from the small number of customers who still insist on sending them...
Gordon
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