Lloyds are "writing to each of their customers individually"

[StealthPolarBear]

according to the news, to explain some cock up.
I don;t know how many customers they have, but surely it'll take a lot of fountain pens and quite a few years?
I would imagine they will be advertising for admin support staff very soon...

Where's UnquietDad when you need him? He would care about this

Wiki says Lloyds TSB have 16 million personal customers and small business accounts.

So at 5 minutes per letter (I'm assuming they'll be short letters: Dear Sir/Madam, We are rubbish at banking. In order to demonstrate this beyond doubt, please allow us to credit your account with £15 million, suddenly realise our mistake, remove £16 million without warning or explanation and then charge you for being overdrawn. Yours sincerely xxx")that's something like 80 million minutes - or 7936 weeks (with no breaks to sleep/eat etc). So 152 years? (I'm not a maths pedant, mind you, so this could all be completely wrong.)

It could solve the jobs crisis.

well exactly
thank you for working out the numbers
you forgot stamp sticking...or is that going too far and they will allow themselves to use a franking machine?? :)

Well... with stamp sticking and letter folding and envelope stuffing, it could take them a really long time

you can get special machines that fodl, stamp, and stuff envelopes, so you don't need people for that.

although, it would probably break down quite a bit with that volume, so, i would factor in a few maintenance men too.