Cash is king? No, time to go card only – from letters page

I’VE always believed that cash is king and much prefer using it on a day to day basis.

But with the increase of illegal workers and money laundering, cash in hand has become an easy way to pay and fund illegal activities.

With this in mind cash in certain situations has become a liability.

Certain jobs that involve cash payments should be instructed to receive only card payments and monitored. By removing ready cash it will be harder work illegally and prevent money laundering.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street ,

Monkgate,

York

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Why the PM is ‘delusional’

LISTENING to Starmer at PMQs, I did not realise we live in such a well run country, prosperous, where the cost of living is of no concern to anyone, utility services virtually cost free, a health service without fault, business growth beyond even Trump proportion.

The man is so delusional he is in love with his own propaganda, he needs telling the moon is not made of green cheese and only fantasists reside in cuckoo land.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton,

North Yorkshire

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‘Crackpot’ idea

SO the latest crackpot idea from Ed Miliband is to create solar panel farms in space. Perhaps a good idea if the rocket taking these panels included Miliband.

Barrie Crowther,

Walton,

Wakefield

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Number crunching

WHO can remember their Co-Op ‘divi’ number from years ago?

Curiously I can recall it better than far more recent ‘digital age’ numbers.

I can’t reveal the actual digits for security reasons.

Knowing the number ‘off pat’ (not the local postman by the way) was part of growing up; it had to be quoted accurately and unerringly, whenever on an errand to the Co-Op shop (not to be confused with the Cop shop, a place to be avoided by the kids on the estate!).

Cheating in the form of ink tattooing the palm of your hand with the magic number was allowed though a sign of weakness.

A copying ink pencil was useful for this purpose, a tool often deployed by blue-lipped ‘beat bobbies’ back then when noting in their pocket-book the name and address of a miscreant. The ‘divi’ number was a sort of treasured memory ultimately convertible into cash.

We’re required to memorise different numbers these days.

Too many for some.

People not confident in their powers of recollection can set a dangerous precedent by risking a tiny written memo to be secreted in cunning fashion but not so cunning that you forget where you put it.

Hiding places for these valuable and potentially vulnerable scraps of paper can range from a tooth cavity to under a bucket near the front door or from the sock drawer to the diary, or somewhere else.

I can also remember my Service Number which is of course, highly classified.

Derek Reed,

Middlethorpe Drive,

York

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Challenging times

MANY older people are unable to manage in this digital world.

Nor can they afford it!

I am luckily able to use a computer but now find if I try to shop online I also need a mobile.

Good luck all you pensioners. The shops will value your custom.

Eunice Birch,

Sutton on Forest,

York