And your armored car companies work for free? Obviously, the things you mention
are also used in Europe, but on both sides of the Atlantic, someone has to pay
for them!
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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> On 24 Feb 2018, at 21:57, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Things are different over there. We have sorting and counting machines, and
> armored car companies to do much of this heavy lifting. Although banks here
> are handling less cash today, it's not because they discourage it, it's
> because folks don't want to carry that, as a card is more convenient.
>
>
> But don't get me started on putting all that stuff on a cell phone. Seems to
> m e like a recipe for disaster.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "piers@xxxxxxxx" <piers.hemy@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 2:50:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] £ note questions
>
> Can't speak for banks over there, Bill, but cash handling over here is an
> expensive materials handling problem. Cash is awkward to handle, a pain to
> separate and count, heavy to ship around, liable to theft, requires special
> facilities to receive, store, reissue etc etc. If your business generates
> significant volumes of cash, expect your bank to want to be rewarded for
> handling it!
>
> On 24 Feb 2018 8:44 pm, "Bill Pearce" <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> How do they save from not handling cash? In the US, some businesses apply
>> a surcharge to card transactions, others are cash only. Since the card
>> company takes a taste off the transaction top, and the bank doesn't off a
>> cash transaction, How can this be?
>>
>>
>> As someone that uses mostly plastic, I would like to know.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 1:22:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OM] £ note questions
>>
>> NW Europe shows the way—in Scandinavia people are using less and less
>> cash. In Denmark, the country with which I am most familiar, more and more
>> shops are stopping taking cash. Clearly, they have calculated that the loss
>> of business from those few customers who would insist on paying that way is
>> more than made up for by the savings from not having to handle cash anymore.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
>> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <
>> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
>> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
>> YNWA
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>>> On 24 Feb 2018, at 02:46, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> When we moved to Alaska, one of my daughters and I did the drive up
>>> through Canada. We were warned to take tons of Canadian money because
>>> you can't always pay with Credit Card at various gas stations, hotels,
>>> restaurants, etc. It turns out that we were absolutely golden and paid
>>> with the card for everything except for a couple of government
>>> campgrounds that required dollars to be stuffed into an envelope. I
>>> had $20 in Canadian or something like that when I left because I
>>> couldn't get any money exchanged. I'm glad I didn't bother. It was all
>>> good running plastic.
>>>
>>> The issue, we discovered, is that not every place will allow for
>>> transactions on Debit Cards. But Credit Cards worked fine. Also,
>>> pay-at-the-pump, in Canada, was with the new chip-readers. It took me
>>> two gas stations to figure that out. Swiping didn't work. In a couple
>>> of cases, AMEX wouldn't work, but VISA would and visa-versa.
>>>
>>> My boss, who did the drive a couple months before me, went through
>>> almost $500 in cash in comparison. He was amazed that I managed to
>>> pull it off without spending hardly any. But he didn't camp along the
>>> way like we did.
>>>
>>> AG
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