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then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Presumably even there though they check the details from your book against the computer system, to not only check that the book is accurate and that the branch has enough cash on hand to fulfil your request? The computer system that has had no power for a week.

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Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They are there as a backup, for if the bank loses power or Internet. Normally they just use the computer system.

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- then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  So you have to use them every time you use the bank, I’m assuming this also means that these accounts don’t allow you to do any kind of internet or telephone banking.
  
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  - Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    if the bank loses power, they’re there for a backup
    
    I feel like you aren’t actually reading my comments?
    
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    then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I am.
    
    I just don’t understand how they can work.
    
    If you don’t use them for every transaction how do they stay synchronised with the bank’s records of how much you have in your account?
    
    When the power is out and the bank can’t check their computer, what’s to stop someone turning up with a bank book that says they have £1 in it and saying that there’s more because they transferred it online before the power went out? Or, of course, the book saying they have more than they do because they took some out before power went out?
    
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