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Lloyds are "writing to each of their customers individually"

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StealthPolarBear · 21/02/2011 23:14

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...

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StealthPolarBear · 21/02/2011 23:17

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

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VictorianIce · 22/02/2011 09:48

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.

StealthPolarBear · 22/02/2011 12:37

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?? :)

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VictorianIce · 22/02/2011 18:00

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

nickelbabe · 03/03/2011 14:03

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.

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