{"id":619,"date":"2008-09-15T19:08:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T09:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=619"},"modified":"2008-09-15T19:08:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T09:08:34","slug":"i-cant-see-you-cua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2008\/09\/15\/i-cant-see-you-cua\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t See You, CUA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact,  it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/02\/17\/an-ongoing-review-of-bendigo-bank\/\">two-and-a-half years ago<\/a> that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>To close my CUA account, I think I have to go into a branch. There is no convenient branch near me. There&#8217;s a branch in Newtown, about 35 minutes away, that I drive past a couple of times per week, but always after hours. That branch was useless while I had a full-time job.<\/p>\n<p>So, one of my pretirement tasks was to finish my migration. I did the last of the direct debit paperwork three months ago, I waited a month to make sure there weren&#8217;t any remaining payments I missed, and then I was ready to close the account.<\/p>\n<p>It took another two months before I had assembled a list of errands that I could do in the area to make the drive across town during the day worthwhile, and to find a window to do it. Today, I had the perfect opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>Only to discover that, in the meantime, the Newtown branch has been closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact, it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement. To close my CUA account, I think I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-heroic-failures","tag-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}