From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Bank of Scotland issue.
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:11:21 GMT

No-one wrote:

> How is it possible to pay cash into someone's acount at a Bank of
> Scotland?

The same way it's possible to pay cash into someone's account at any
other bank.

> When I went to the Halifax, they said they could not allow e to pay cash
> into someone's BoS account?

Weren't you there?  Don't you remember?  Why do you ask?  Are you appealing
for witnesses?

> Yet according to the BoS website all branches are now called Halifax!

This BOS/Halifax identity crisis is a red herring.  The real issue is
paying cash into other people's accounts, and it's a problem no matter
who the relevant bankers are.

You need a pre-printed paying-in slip for the payee's account.