Last week I went to the shop in the morning to buy something for breakfast.
I’ve collected my items and went to the till to pay for them, but when I’ve put my pin to the card terminal – it said that the card was blocked.

Without thinking twice I went straight to the bank to ask what’s happened.

The bank representative kindly told me that my card has been blocked as I should now be using the new one which they’ve sent to me some time ago.

Since I haven’t received anything, I’ve asked when has it been sent and the answer was about 2 months ago.

I told her that I didn’t receive anything and she’s asked me to confirm my post code – which I did.

The next question was whether I’ve moved recently – and I said – well, not that recently because I’ve moved about a year ago and I’ve already changed my address in this bank 3 times because it hasn’t been updated.

So – guess what – I had to give her my address again – and put my signature on the piece of paper to confirm that I am who I am.

She said that my signature isn’t exactly as the one on the system – it misses 2 letters.
That gave her an idea of explaining that perhaps because of my signature didn’t match last time – they didn’t update the address.

Now I have to wait 1-2 weeks for them to change my address again and 2 weeks for my card to arrive.

Now – I’ve also asked – why they didn’t contact me if I haven’t activated my card after such long time – and she said that the card was sent activated as it’s a replacement.

I asked – that’s not very secure – is it – sending the activated card – and the answer was – it’s normally ok.

That really worries me, as some time ago my card was cloned – which means someone got hold of my pin and card number. Since then I had a new card and new pin – but you can’t really say whenever you pay with your card whether someone is copying your pin or not.

Now, if my card was sent without activation and someone by any chance knows my pin …. – anyway – you get an idea. Scary thing is that banks don’t think this is important enough.

Anyway, after I came back home I’ve realised that I’m actually receiving my statements to my new address so they have to have it right on the system – unless each computer station in the bank uses its own database?

It sounds such non-sense when I hear that it takes 2 weeks to change your address, that every time I go to the bank they have different address of mine, even thou my statements are arriving to the right one.
These days everything is stored digitally and how long does it take to change the address on the computer – 2 min if you are really slow typer?

And I’m sure it’s not the security measure – because in that case they should also think about sending the card which need to be activated by the owner first – before being used.

It really is sad that we all have to use Banks to deal with our own money.
Banks are private organisations, which dictate how we’re going to live – if you think government is running the country – think again, because you’re really mistaking.

Did you realise that to get a job and get paid you HAVE TO have a bank account – there’s no way around it.

People talk about freedom and democracy – which is just another word for a “Modern slavery” – we are all slaves of the system run by the private organisations – and government is just a bunch of marionnettes who do exactly as they’re told.

One movie I recommend to all of you is called Zeitgeist and you can watch it free here: