Just call into any branch.  There’s a small collection fee of $54.70 (to cover admin and international market fluctuations) plus a hand delivery charge of $47.35.  What great value!!!!

Lots of love, Barbara (re-joins her ANZ, Commonwealth, Westpac and NAB mates in Bank World)

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Lest We Forget.

The original plan was to fill up a trolley full of shopping – all the smallest packets possible – go through the checkout and try to pay with my Visa Debit card by pressing Credit. Of course Woolies now refuse this, forcing you to press Savings or Cheque – but not everybody has those functions on their Visa Debit Card. Cue ranting and storming out in a huff. But then i thought it wouldn’t be fair on those behind me in the queue (because they never have enough people working on shift), or the poor checkout chick who’s probably gone thorough this before.

So the target is their Head Office instead, using their ever-so-friendly website which allows you to cancel your Everyday Rewards card online.

I am cancelling my card in disgust at Woolworth’s recent policy change in refusing to accept Visa Debit cards as a Credit transaction.

By forcing me, the customer who pays your wages, to use a Debit transaction, you are forcing the payment to go via the EFTPOS network rather than the Visa network.

As a Credit Union customer, I get slammed on EFTPOS transactions because of the high charges that the major banks charge non-profit institutions like Credit Unions, unlike Visa or Mastercard charges. So this results in a transaction charge to me.

Woolworths may argue that it has the right to refuse payment methods. However you don’t have the right to tell me to switch my financial services provider to continue shopping at your store, which is what i have been told by your representatives.

I also have the right to boycott all Woolworths Limited’s stores, and to tell as many people as i can to do the same.

Good riddance, see you at Coles.

Simon

I wonder what Marketing-approved Standard Response I will receive?

Not to be outdone by the Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a Sydney archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the Sydney Morning Herald read: “New South Wales archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 30 years earlier than the Victorians”….

One week later, the Courier Mail in Brisbane, Queensland, reported the following:”After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Beenleigh, Queensland, John Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely bugger all. John has therefore concluded that 130 years ago, Queensland had already gone wireless.

Just makes you proud to be a Queenslander!

Australia, of course, is one of the world’s most beautiful and unspoilt countries to visit. A large proportion of its economy relies on the Mining and Tourism sectors. However, due to its amazing natural history and evolutionary process (until, of course, the British invaded in 1779), the land down under has been home to many wild and wonderful creatures that simply don’t exist anywhere in the world. Everyone knows about our ‘roos, wallabies, wallaroos and koalas, but Tourism Australia, in partnership with the Federal Government, supress all information about the Dropbear, for fear of crippling our vital tourism industry. They even regularly force changes to websites, under national security laws, to websites such as the Wikipedia.

For fear of censorship, this article will not talk about the dropbear. However we suspect that the Government have been putting commercial and economic pressure on Facebook to remove content such as this fan page, where young Aussies celebrate our wonderful killer koala-like meat-eating marsupials (whilst also trying to subtley warn tourists who come to our shores to watch out for them, and not to disappear in our CBD parks due to the increasing silent ambush tactics used by hordes of dropbears).

As is commonly known, and opposed by the majority of its citizens (a.k.a. voters), the Australian Government are attempting to censor the internet, lead by the poltiical ambitions of idiots such as Chief Censor Conroy and a few minority independent senators going for the Christian or “Family Friendly” vote. An excellent test of the Government’s powers came to the fore when Facebook decided to ban all Pages that wern’t related to a product or service. Consequently, the administrators of the Drop Bear fan page, which was set up to warn visitors to Australia given censorship by official channels, had to prove Dropbears existed with “official” confirmation otherwise the Page would be permanently closed and deleted.

It doesn’t take a genius to put 2+2 together doesn’t it?

Well apparently it does … Australia today announced that their Internet Filtering “Live” Pilot (a.k.a. censorship) was a complete success – even though less than a third of the “blacklist” contains illegal material – was a complete success and it will push ahead with mandatory internet filtering. As I’ve said before, anything to do with “child sex abuse content, bestiality, sexual violence and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use” should quite rightly be monitored, and people who access such information should be caught, prosecuted and punished with the full force of the law. However, all that will happen is these b@stards will use widely-available technologies to bypass the filter … which makes it more difficult (not impossible, just difficult) for them to be caught by the miniscule 91 extra AFP officers that wil be funded to try and catch them.

Moreover, due to the sensitive nature of the blacklist, access to it is restricted with no oversight to prevent governmental censorship of legal material … for example, what next? Anti-abortion websites? Pro-abortion websites? Aethiest websites? Dropbear warnings? Facebook? Whistleblower websites like Wikileaks (currently tried to be censored by the Australian and British governments, among others)?