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I wrote in thousands of passbooks in my time at a bank - they were truly a pain in the arse, but also a true artefact of old school ways. High quality little t
by jpsouth 3y ago
I wrote in thousands of passbooks in my time at a bank - they were truly a pain in the arse, but also a true artefact of old school ways.
High quality little things for sure, and a lot of history surrounding some of them, I’ve seen and written in books probably 100 years old.
The reason they’re a pain in the arse is the small size, both sides must be filled out which is awkward, and you have to enter the transaction through a computer anyway so it doubles the work, plus you feel shit for not having fantastic handwriting like 90% of the entries.
I know why people want to see their balance physically, but I feel people are holding onto a relic of their past due to financial illiteracy on a grand scale in the UK.
- crossroadsguy 3y agoDid you work there many decades ago? Because here in India passbooks have had printer entry for at least 20-30 years give or take or more. And if there was an old passbook (that was designed for handwritten entries) it had to be replaced by a new passbook immediately (you could keep the old passbook but it would crossed/marked or something).
- jpsouth 3y agoNo, just a decade or so. We had passbook printers, but their ribbons were quite poor and broke often so we ended up writing a lot of books. Joys of living in an old school market town! If we had an old one we kept and destroyed it (but really, it was given back lol) - we’d hand copy and books that went wrong at renewal which was probably a weekly occurrence.