I have recently filed a claim for nearly £3000 for RBS ffor last 6 years. One of the charges from early 2000 was for £125, and on the statement its referred to as: cheque card recovery fee Has anyone else been charged this for the Bank to press a button on a computer to block the card and for them to call me and say the card is blocked and i must cut it up? Can an employee in RBS tell us wether this was a charge they dreamed up to make more money out of me, or if it is a standard, and known charge which other people have had charged too? I suspect its the former. Also interestingly they charged me a spiral of charges over 9 weeks, totalling just under £1100 (including this £125 recovery charge). This was also the first 2 months of the earliest charges 6 years ago. Of course the bank didnt send me from Dec 1999 but sent me from feb 2000.. and of course the first 2 months is where the spiral of charges came. I only found this out when a week after my 6 years statements arrived on 24th feb 2007 (I wrote to bank on 6th dec 2006 requesting statements) i received a franked white envelope (obviously not from head office but from the branch) with the statements missing from the period dec 1999 to feb 2006. Strange goings on.... someone in the bank obviously knew i was loosing out and sent me them .. but i dont know who.. Can anyone comment on this too??