howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#2
Nat West in Sandwich is shutting later this year. It's only recently reduced to opening Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#3
Cant say they will be a loss the branch officials have very little they can do usually passing you on to head office
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
Sandwich folk must be mainly banking online as HSBC closed their branch earlier this year.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#5
Iv had a few issues where it would have been nice for the local branch manager to sort but just got passed on to head office, and it was such a simple prob to solve
its also time consuming going through head office
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#6
Joking apart, with the ridiculous rise in property prices, many of us now have a portfolio worth more than £5 million and even if not most people can raise the £500,000 necessary to open a Coutts bank account.
Their office is close to Charing Cross station when in town and their debit card works at all other banks.
Contrary to popular belief they are not at all 'snobbish' and I've found they provide an excellent service.
Well worth looking in to IMHO.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#7
In spite of the Captains opening words I can only guess the rest of his post is actually a joke. "most people can raise the £500,000 ". I wish I could and I am quite comfortable in my old age.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#8
Sent not to me but to unknown previous resident (long unused account, I guess); I haven't yet been officially informed. But it's prompted me to remember I have 2 accounts there...
...which I'll be closing soon.
Lmao at the disingenuity of '
how people choose to do their banking has been changing for some time...' As if this were ever driven by 'people' and not government and central banks.
Still, more cash for my mattress.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 455
#9
I got fed up with trying to use Halifax in Dover over the past months- it was always closed or had very limited opening times. Started using the Deal branch, I complained that the Dover branch was never open and they said it was due to staff illness but also stated that it wasn’t going to be closing!
I’ll continue to use Deal or Canterbury.
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,170
#10
Yes you are right sir, there was to much banking going on in the Dover branch, a branch they wanted to close a long time ago ,I do not know why, I had banked there over 30 years and got so fed up with how they run the branch that I moved over the road I was all ready using the NW anyway and by moving the little cash I had they give me £125 for doing it never looked back ,my wife has a small amount with the HALIFAX but she is on the move next week.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#11
Degrade service > usage drops > close service.
Business pattern disguises policy as consumer choice.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#12
Thing is most banks and building societies staff have become just clerks with no power to actually run the branch .
In fact they encourage to use the on line facility
Then close branch's
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