Post Office Closures - Page 4

cashman · 17-03-2008, 23:50

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Originally Posted by garinda

Personally I don't know any pensioners who go to the Post Office to collect their pension. It's paid directly into their bank account, and therefore, can in theory, be earning them interest from that very moment, instead of the Post Office.

thats probably cos you dont go in em mate,more often than not i use the one in the co-op up ossy, n i usually camp differant ones in the queue whilst waiting.

garinda · 17-03-2008, 23:51

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Originally Posted by Cyfr

I bet pensioners in the North East would rather get their money from the post office than trust the bank!

There are probably people who wish milk was still deliverd in churns, from the back of a cart, and that most children would be better employed sweeping chimneys.

Life changes all the time.

Lilly · 17-03-2008, 23:52

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Originally Posted by garinda

...and most pensioners I know are quite savvy with the workings of the modern world, many more so than me.

The word 'pensioner' can be applied to anyone over 60 I think.....or is it 65?

They can still be savvy at that age. It's the people in their 80s and 90s that worry me in all this.

garinda · 17-03-2008, 23:53

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Originally Posted by cashman

thats probably cos you dont go in em mate,more often than not i use the one in the co-op up ossy, n i usually camp differant ones in the queue whilst waiting.

Ok, I know you, but since you're not of pensionable age...yet, you don't count in my statement that I personally don't know any pensioners who still collect their money from the Post Office.

cashman · 17-03-2008, 23:54

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Originally Posted by garinda

Life changes all the time.

not always for the better.

andrewb · 17-03-2008, 23:54

The environmental effect is rather bad too, forcing people to travel all the way instead of just walking to their local post office.

cashman · 17-03-2008, 23:56

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Originally Posted by garinda

Ok, I know you, but since you're not of pensionable age...yet, you don't count in my statement that I personally don't know any pensioners who still collect their money from the Post Office.

well i dont know if they are collecting pensions or not,dont ask em,the point being there is always some in using the post office for whatever reason.

garinda · 17-03-2008, 23:56

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Originally Posted by Lilly

The word 'pensioner' can be applied to anyone over 60 I think.....or is it 65?

They can still be savvy at that age. It's the people in their 80s and 90s that worry me in all this.

Currently women can claim their State pension at sixty, for men it's sixty five.

These are the flower power generation pensioners. It's quite patronising to think they are too dodery, and daft, to use modern banking facilities, such as chip 'n' pin.

cashman · 17-03-2008, 23:58

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Originally Posted by garinda

Currently women can claim their State pension at sixty, for men it's sixty five.

These are the flower power generation pensioners. It's quite patronising to think they are too dodery, and daft, to use modern banking facilities, such as chip 'n' pin.

i can and do use chip n pin when i have no other choice,its not summat i like though.

garinda · 17-03-2008, 23:58

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Originally Posted by cashman

well i dont know if they are collecting pensions or not,dont ask em,the point being there is always some in using the post office for whatever reason.

Sounds like they are there for social reasons, mainly to chat to you.

I'm glad I'm not at the back of the queue, waiting to fill in a form for a missing parcel.

cashman · 18-03-2008, 00:00

thats crass (a word you used recently) they are in the queue to be served n you damn well know it.

garinda · 18-03-2008, 00:04

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Originally Posted by cashman

thats crass (a word you used recently) they are in the queue to be served n you damn well know it.

Cashy, I do see the need for Post Offices, and I do know the one in Ossy is well used, especially now there is only one left in the centre of the town.

What I do object to is public money being used to prop up those that aren't as well used, are unprofitable, and are funded like something out of the state run, old eastern European block.

Lilly · 18-03-2008, 00:04

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Originally Posted by garinda

Currently women can claim their State pension at sixty, for men it's sixty five.

These are the flower power generation pensioners. It's quite patronising to think they are too dodery, and daft, to use modern banking facilities, such as chip 'n' pin.

That's exactly why I pointed out that I wasn't suggesting that chip and pin is too befuddling for people in their sixties. I didn't mean to patronise anyone. Katex, Margaret and Cashman are in their sixties aren't they?

They are not old at all.
I would never suggest that they are too doddery for chip and pin. Far from it. I was talking about people much older, people in their 80s and 90s.

Royboy39 · 18-03-2008, 00:05

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Originally Posted by garinda

Oh I forgot, it's Mrs Royboy who still bounces cheques.

Still the same old ginger.
Mrs Royboy has more money than you will ever dream of.
We don't have ducks and geese in view but we do have the Med in view when we get up in the morning.
You can be a bitch sometimes.
I remember the quote "People love me"
Not me I'm afraid

garinda · 18-03-2008, 00:08

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Mrs Royboy has more money than you will ever dream of.

..and yet you still settled for Alicante, or as I prefer to call it, Morecambe with parasols.