[oasisbob]

I was working at a credit union during the same time, and I found the immediate change in rhetoric really disheartening.

Overnight the line for overdrafting your account went from, "You're being financially irresponsible by not properly balancing your account - you deserve the fee" to "Overdraft Protection is like an umbrella - nobody expects it to rain, but if it does it's nice to have protection.

I was shocked at how much fighting there in the industry to carve out transaction types from the opt-in behavior.

[colanderman]

I'm surprised and somewhat disheartened to here that there are credit unions which follow this practice. Doesn't seem to really fit with their charter.