I am wondering if anyone can enlighten me.
I have a relative, in her late 80s, who pays all her bills in cash. She has a building society account, but no bank account, therefore no bank or credit cards of any description, and not even a cheque book!
I don't know if her state pension is paid into that account, or if she still collects it weekly from a Post Office, but each week she takes cash out to pay for whatever she needs to buy or to pay any bills that are due - my mum discovered last week that she even goes and pays her council tax in cash , in one payment, as soon as it is due each year!
As far as we can work out, she normally goes to the nearest big town to pay all her bills, which I suppose will be her phone, energy and water bills. We don't know where she pays them, but my mum seems to think that there used to be some sort of shop in the bus station where she went to do this, though she doesn't know if that is still the case.
This is where I was hoping someone might be able to enlighten me, because I had no idea that such places existed: what sort of shop might it be where household bills could be paid in cash?
The more we know, the better, because she is going to have to be persuaded that because of Covid 19 (which she has studiously ignored, even stopping watching television because the coverage of the virus annoyed her), she can no longer go and pay her bills like that, and that quite possibly, the place she would usually go will not even be open. She had no idea that most shops are now closed!.
Well Labour’s “patriotism” didn’t last very long, did it? 🇬🇧
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