🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Mar26.215539.29153@Cadence.COM> phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
>
>As far as pushing Check Safekeeping -- I haven't seen any evidence of that.
>They sent me notice of the option a long time ago, I informed them I wanted
>my checks and I haven't had any pressure (or even any inducement) to change
>since that time.

Maybe they just started pressuring people into Check Safekeeping.  I
recently started two checking accounts, and both times they
automatically put me into Check Safekeeping.  When I got my first
statement without my checks, I called and asked them why.  They told
me about Safekeeping and went to great lengths to convince me that
it was what everybody does.  No big deal, at least we can have our
checks if we want them.
>
>Actually, I like this feature and don't think it is silly at all.  It is
>a very secure way to ensure that unauthorized people don't get hold of your
>ATM card.  Other banks send your secret code through the mail.  With Security
>Pacific, my secret code is picked by me when I activate the card -- and it
>is NEVER written down and sent through the mail.

The silly part isn't picking the secret code when you activate the
card.  What's silly is having to go to the bank to start an account,
then waiting a week for them to mail an ATM card, and then having to
go back to the bank to get it activated.  At the last bank I was at
they had a supply of cards AT the branch, so I could type in my code
and get my card the same day I started the account.
>
>I've been with Security Pacific since around 1979 and have been very happy
>with the service I've gotten (which is why I've stayed with them for that
>long).  I'm a little nervous about the impending merger with BofA, though.
>My wife is with BofA, though, and has been happy with their service.
>
I've had nothing but trouble with Security Pacific, but there is an
ATM machine nearby and they have lots of ATM's everywhere.  Things
have gotten better with them lately, but the merger is troubling.

-- 
Steve Linke
University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Internet: slinke@sdcc3.ucsd.edu