From: "Yes Baby" <2468@never2latebtinternet.com>
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Speedy Lloyds TSB internet banking
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:59:39 +0100
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 wrote in message 
news:o4ednU6v6fF6SDnbnZ2dnUVZ8ternZ2d@bt.com...
> At 11pm on Sunday evening, I tried to set up a standing order to leave my 
> account that day (Sunday) - it didn't let me, suprise suprise (said the 
> date was "in the past") - anyway, worth a try and all that - so I set it 
> to go on the following day - Monday. But it wouldn't even let me do that 
> either.
>
> Why not? Now, the earliest I managed to get my standing order to go out on 
> was Tuesday, after setting it up to go on Sunday!
>
> This is supposedly the age of "business at the speed of thought" - so 
> what's going wrong at Lloyds?
>
> PS, I didn't have any pending large or future scheduled payments to stop 
> it from coming out, so that shouldn't have had anything to do with it, 
> neither was the standing order a large one.
>

Sunday is a day of rest as is Saturday with LTSB.............so they 
consider your setup to be Monday even though done on Sunday.

The transaction is then carried out the Next working day............which 
would be Tuesday.