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- From: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sorry, we don't accept cash... Huh?
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 00:35:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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- linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robrert Linley) writes:
- >>for silver regardless of the "promise". But more to the point we can
- >>demonstrate why a delivery service would not accept cash quite handily,
- >>we place you in a Fed.Ex. truck and let you collect cash on deliveries
- >>through oh... South Central L.A. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Gee, I guess having all those credit card numbers (from plastic payments)
- >poses no risk whatsoever? The drivers could keep a small amount of change.
-
- The risk of credit card number is a lot lower than the risk of cash. Just
- how many liquor stores and drug dealers (oops...redundency) do you think will
- let you make a purchase by giving a credit card number without having the
- credit card itself? Or grocery stores? Or other stores?
-
- Also, the problem is not change, I would guess, but much larger amounts
- of cash. What's the average value of things shipped C.O.D. by Federal
- Express? That times the expected number of such shipments that a driver
- will have to handle on a delivery route, divided by two, is the amount of
- cash that they would have to worry about.
-
- --Tim Smith
-