They do not issue them anymore.

She found a box of them in a cupboard in the back from about 2006 and she has given me three and she has told me there are nine left.

Arthur Vance retired in the September of 2025.

There was a thing in the lobby with a sheet cake on a folding table and about forty people, which for a branch manager in a town of nine thousand is a great many, and I went, and I had worked out something to say and did not say it.

What I said was thank you, and he said, “You’re very welcome,” and that was all, and it was correct.