The Post Office will decline a number of services with our card because we do not have an agreement with them to support services such as cash and cheque handling. We should be fully accepted for payment of postal fees and other services they offer though! 
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Does cash withdrawal need an agreement? Surely I thought it’d just be over-the-counter cash over Mastercard, like you can go into a bank and get.
It unfortunately does, as far as I’m aware, the way they do it is not entirely standard manual cash disbursement or cashback. 
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Figures, knowing the post office, thanks. Grrr at them… there’s a totally standard way to do an over-the-counter cash transaction (attended cash), why on earth do they not do this? I guess they get paid more from their partners than the network interchange pays?
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The withdrawal of cash at a (UK) Post Office costs banks a lot of money as they have to sign up to a contract with the Post Office. When Metro Bank sign their contract they only agreed to let their business customers access Post Office Counters Branch Banking Services and not personal customers as they were going to cost them too much money. I am not sure if they have yet decided to fork out the extra money and let personal customers use the Post Office.
As for paying to mail parcels or buy stamps I have used my Monzo card for that OK.
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I had a problem paying for Special Delivery but it turned out to be the card terminal failing to get a line out rather than anything else so jot at all bank specific. All that means is that I haven’t tried it properly yet.
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That’s privatisation… they should just offer over the counter cash like a normal bank does…
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I’ve just seen that Revolut are now doing Visa cards instead of MasterCard Debit. 
Is it planned for Monzo to continue with MC Debit, or change over to Visa too? #MonzoFTW
my understanding was they were not doing Visa instead of Mastercard but as well as. Their pictures promoting their budget account use Visa but for their premium account use Mastercard. However in their help pages it talks about chosing between them and picking which best suits where you are going to while saying both are pretty much equally accepted 
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Ah my mistake, but that makes more sense. Thanks @anon44204028 
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Why would you want them to change to VISA? There isnt much difference between having a visa or MasterCard
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Does anyone have any ideas the benefits of having a MasterCard rather than a visa? I’ve looked all around the internet and my conclusion was that they’re similar. Have any ideas?
Ultimately there isn’t much difference, although generally the exchange rate that MasterCard provide is better.
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Thanks, yes I’ve read that. Isn’t it a pitty that I don’t travel much 
. I’ll keep that in mind.
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I’ve moved the post’s here to keep the chatter about the differences of both card networks in one place. Hope that’s ok 
One of the benefits is that it’s not VISA, which is good for consumers. MasterCard Debit’s UK foothold is fairly small, but growing. Letting VISA command all of, or most of, the debit market won’t benefit consumers or banks, as they’d no doubt exploit their market power to extract as much profit as possible. Healthy competition is almost always beneficial for the consumer.
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That’s very true. It’ll make visa work harder and improve to try and keep their share of the debit market.
How does one even start that conversation? It’s not like they just have a phone number on the website.
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Yeah people trying to buy Post Malone tickets found this out this week, with them getting to checkout only to find visa not accepted.
(Think they chose the Mastercard preferred route instead of General Sale though 
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