"Davidm" wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 May 2021 07:43:01 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

NY wrote:

I do have a sneaking suspicion that some of my bond numbers were not
entered into the draw or else were paying out to someone else, for that
large amount of capital to return *such* a small amount. There was no
problem when I cashed in the money (as a small contribution to buying a
new house), so all the money was correctly registered to me on their
system.

For premium bonds purchased in the 1960s, which are yellowing pieces of
paper with a rubber-stamped date on them, in a small cardboard wallet,
were these centrally recorded anywhere?
Must be, 'cos I recently registered for an online account with NS&I
and they showed up in my account (I had kept them updated on address
changes).

Apart from a few bonds that I bought in a savings scheme at school in the
mid-1970s (I contributed 10p a week and after 10 weeks a £1 bond was bought
in my name) where paper certificates were issued, all my bonds were bought
electronically using the web site. I don't remember seeing individual bond
numbers on the notification of which bond had won a prize. If the prize
notification had mentioned the bond number, I might have thought "it's odd
that a bond with this number has won several prizes over the years whereas a
bond with this number has never won - is that statistically significant?".
Very difficult to prove when the chance of any given bond winning is so
small.