General Chat

JoyL .................

yes, some people do.

The vets who sell poppies here are among the best at that.

OH came home this afternoon and said Poppies are on sale now.

Now, I do donate to the Poppy seller, whether that be the Boy Scout, the Veteran, or, as is happening more often, putting the money and taking the poppy from the box one or other of those have left at the coffee shop so they don't have to be out meeting people.

The vets from WW2 are so old now!

There are some charities that I am quite willing to drop money into a collection box for, But I won't sign up - so they have lost money.

There is a suggestion that the Poppy sellers won't be out and about this year - if I send in a donation then I am inundated with post from them (it has happened in the past).

names. several years ago I was laid up for six weeks at this time of year and I sent a cheque to the poppy people - nothing else in the envelope and no address given either.

It worked as I expected. The cheque went through and I had no correspondence from them as they did not have my address.

I think I’ve done it both ways. give a charity a hint of an address and they will be onto you.

When we last moved we took our telephone number with us which was registered with TPS. I then got a letter from a charity I had never supported saying how sorry they were that they were sorry to see one of their long term supporters cutting off telephone contacts from them.
Names thought up names for them ;-)

A friend of mine died recently,,and as his NOK lives a hundred or so miles away, I have access to his flat,

positively amazed at the various letters he gets still from charities...and others!!
whether he actually supported them, I don't know....

Joy .................

do your cheques not have account holder name(s) and addresses printed on them???

Here, a name and address has to be on the cheque, upper left corner, either pre-printed or handwritten on, or it can (mostly WILL) be refused by the merchant, or whoever the account holder has issued it to.

Sylvia,

No address shown on our cheques. The name of the account holder( s) is printed towards the bottom right of the cheque, but it may just be initial and surname, if that is the name that has been recorded for that account

No address on the cheques, Sylvia, only surname and initials of Christian names.

Often people sending cheques will write their address on the reverse side but I never did that as I knew from experience that the charity would still bank it.

This thread has turned out to be not so charitable ;-) :-D