Grrr. Arrrg.

[Captain Untouchable]

Dear Mr Atkins,

The reason that your debit card has been declined is because we're a bunch of feckless morons. We were so busy making retarded television adverts that we completely forgot to mention 'Oh, by the way; we're replacing all our Maestro cards with Visa cards, so keep an eye out for your new one'.

We realise that having put out some sort of information regarding this change would probably have alerted you to the fact that you didn't recieve said replacement card THREE MONTHS AGO; unfortunately, I refer you to our first sentence.

Because three months has now ellapsed, your existing card has automatically been cancelled. You should recieve a replacement within seven working days: unfortunately, the system that normally allows us to authorise a cash withdrawl from an ATM in an emergency is broken this weekend, and whoops, because we've already cancelled your card, we won't be able to do anything about that even once it is fixed.

Have a good time hiking out to the nearest bank and back again just so that you can make it to work and earn money that we won't let you have.

Sincerely,
- Your bank

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Killlll!!! Well, get your money and THEN kill.

Yeah sorry that's all I got.

[Chaz de Coventina]

Boo. That's rough. :(

[Jamo Jakatta]

:shakefist

Bloody banker wankers.

[Lykaios]

Sounds like a bank alright

Sorry mate, that completely and utterly blows =/

[Keerrourri Feessaarro]

:shakefist

Bloody banker wankers.

Oh really now?

[Captain Untouchable]

Surely a "banker wanker" is someone who provides manual sexual gratification to a banker, whereas a "wanker banker" would be a banker who engages in said activity himself?

[Cirrsseeto Quez]

Haters gonna hate, can't hear y'all over the sound of stacking chips

[Shadow Storm]

Switch banks, if you have that option.

[Taataani Meorrrei]

No notice at all? Not even as an addendum to a statement? I've dealt with re-issues a lot and that's bizarre. We usually send out multiple redundant notices if we're going to be reissuing cards for reasons other than expiration, theft, loss, or request.

[Captain Untouchable]

Yeah, it's weird. I do paperless banking, so I don't actually see a physical bank statement anymore... but apparently it affected everyone, and they didn't even bother to throw up a splash page on Internet Banking, or send out an email (which they do for other stuff a lot)... was weird. :\

[Anbira Hicchoru]

That seems pretty odd. Yeah, they don't have their shit together.