[PattiB]

Our main accounts are with a Tasmanian Credit Union, though it might have recently joined or taken over a small banking chain, and I’ve never ever been inconvenienced by outages etc. They have an excellent online banking service, and are easy to call for any minor problems that we’ve encountered. All upgrades are done during the early hours of the morning. Hope I’m not jinxing them.

 

[Benny's Light]

Outages are becoming the new normal. Reliance on complicated digital systems and their vulnerability are expected. Life used to be so much simpler. I suppose this is what we get for progress - no system is completely foolproof.

 

[Free.lander]

and the banks want us to go cashless- maybe they should have to go 5 years with out an outage or a hacking or any other crap to prove to us that their system are reliable -- so far a cashless society is the last thing we want because the banks digital system is rubbish and businesses want to be paid immediately for what they sell-- no operational card machine ,no one gets paid

 

[Mactavish]

Hold some cash at home. There are more bank shutdowns likely to come. We are more likely to lose money to scams than to "break and enter" crime. Scammers operate in the comfort of their own home with a phone and a computer rather than risk physically confronting persons in their own home. For them, what is not to like. So having some cash hidden at home is not as risky as it once was.

 

[Ree]

And they want to remove cash and make everything digital. I don't think so!

 

[darrellh]

I definitely hold cash at home and on me so I am always covered no matter what happens. I am nit getting caught out that is for sure.