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What's up with the loaded rhetoric? You can still do most things without card access: - keep standing orders flowing; - transfer your money out through the m

• yellowapple 6y ago
  > What's up with the loaded rhetoric? How is that rhetoric loaded? What rhetoric? > if push comes to shove, go to a branch and withdraw your money in person. When I was starting out in my IT career, the nearest branch of my credit union was more than an hour away by car, and for much of that time I didn't even have a car. If my credit union had restricted my account to "thou must visiteth a branch and speaketh with a representative", I would've been screwed - on a level of "freezing and starving". > transfer your money out through the mobile app or website; Assuming this wouldn't be one of the first things shut off alongside the card.
  • gambiting 6y ago
    >>When I was starting out in my IT career, the nearest branch of my credit union was more than an hour away by car But then.....why did you open an account with a bank without a branch nearby? Not being funny, but that's your own failing, not of the bank.
    • yellowapple 6y ago
      When I first signed up for that credit union (right after I graduated high school) it was a 5 minute walk from where I lived. Then I moved, because I couldn't find work in my hometown. I could've switched banks, but the only option in my new town was Bank of America, and after they screwed my folks over I'd sooner store my money in a mattress like my great grandma did in the Depression than trust my money with them.