SIR Mike Priestley suggests that paying for goods or services by cash is the way to avoid electronic financial mugging (T&A, May 13).
But paying by cash has its pitfalls. My telephone company, Telewest, charges its customers £4 extra per transaction to those paying by cash, claimed as an administration fee just for handing your hard-earned cash over the bank counter, on time, into their account as well as demanding the telephone line rental a month in advance.
How do they get away with this and how do they get away with discriminating against those who do not have the benefit of a bank account?
It does seem that paying by numbers or by cash over the counter there is always someone ready to financially mug you.
R J Lacey, Wrose Road, Bradford
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