I was going to post this on the Santander thread but it deserves its own thread, in my humble opinion.
Strange things in banking that sound like they should exist in your head but did in reality. I’ll start.
Driving up to the building society and using their drive thru to do banking. If I remember right you could either get counter service from the comfort of your Ford Sierra or drop off your cheques and cash inside a VHS style hole in the wall.
Top marks if you can beat that one. Bonus points if you did it in reality.
I think that exists to a degree in America, where the car is king and everything is geared towards the automobile. The drive-thru ATM is a common sight there and i am sure I have seen some where they’ve got a night service petrol-station style hatch where you can do (or did) used to do just that.
Paying for something with your card using digital, always-on connected devices, that instantly transmit data and can instantly update bank balances, only to have a transaction “pending” for 3 days, then replaced by a whole new “settled” transaction that apparently has nothing to do with the original pending transaction (or so I was told in a previous conversation).
Do transaction confirmations and settlements travel by donkey? To me that’s very very weird.
