In alt.usage.english, wrote:
but to get back to the fivers I rang the BOE this afternoon
and as mentioned here the other day BOE have enough new notes to
replace every old note that is out there but they say banks are just
not asking for them and there is no way for us or BOE to make them.
What the guy at BOE did say more new notes would get into circulation
if only people would take any well worn notes into the banks instead
of just spending them in shops etc .

It's no good blaming the customers. The banks need to put the fivers in
their cash machines.

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England