Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:56:01 on Sun, 17
May 2009, Barry Salter remarked:
My Maestro card...Presumably to ensure the deposit is credited to the
correct account, as there's no manual input of account details.

When I pay in at NatWest they appear to run my dead-tree paying-in slip
through a reader, and that's how the destination account is established.

Did they require a PIN? I can see that reading the details off the chip are
a quick way of reading the account number, but I can't see any reason why
the PIN would be involved.

It's part of a more pernicious trend, which is to make it impossible for
anyone other than the account holder to pay into a account. The Post Office
require a Chip & PIN transaction just for cash credits... bonkers.

Theo