The One Pound Note.

[Butterbun]

The Scots kept their £1 pound note so why did the English not keep theirs?Don't you think it would be easier when sending away quiz monies to use one instead of 'sellotaping' a coin to the quiz sheet? I'm sure the quizzers would find it a lot easier.

[Mamyalynne]

For the many quizzes I send for,my method is 5X20p coins in a row on thin card folded inside the quiz/SAE.

Flatter than a Pound coin and itseems to work.


I would send a cheque each time but my bank queries why I need more than one book a month when nothing has as yet been cashed.

[douglas9401]

"Like the US one dollar bill, having a note for an amount that barely buys a newspaper (and sertainly does not buy a decent one)..."

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/tomorrow-the-national-a-new-daily-paper-for-scotland.25941314

There you go New Judge, get yourself a Milky Way with the change. :-)

[Butterbun]

Mamya, the 20p coins sounds ok but I'd worry about the weight of the envelope. I'll check it out soon. I do feel silly writing cheques for only £1 and wonder what they think at the bank so I don't do it too often. I was thinking there must be an easier way.

[EDDIE51]

Postal orders are still around but I am not sure they start as low as £1.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh yes,it weighs more but as they are half the thickness and spread the length of the envelope the whole thing is slimmer - as a side issue since I started this method hardly any have been stolen as opposed to when I used pound coins.

[EDDIE51]

Postal orders are available from 50p , but there is a fee on top of the cash price .
http://www.postoffice.co.uk/postal-orders

[agchristie]

I don't know what Sir Issac would have made of it's demise. The gravity of the situation would be too much to bear for him.

[guilliebrougues]

I have regular quizzers who send me the £1 note rather than coins and have no problem when banking them .

[Butterbun]

There you are then Eddie. For the cost of getting two postal orders I could buy another quiz and support another charity.

[Butterbun]

One of my points guilliebrougues, they're not too hard to get. Now if we could only get some English ones...

[EDDIE51]

Can the quiz not give a bank account and sort code? then you can just transfer the cash ( £1 and up) instantly and free by using online banking from your PC /Laptop/ or phone.

[DaisyNonna]

If I did not have a cheque book how would I pay my milkman?
He submits a monthly bill and we have never seen each other.
A crossed cheque, inside a small finds bag tucked into an empty bottle is my present mode of paying.