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- From: linley@netcom.com (Bruce James Robrert Linley)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Sorry, we don't accept cash... Huh?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.030726.6398@netcom.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 03:07:26 GMT
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- In a previous article tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) spake...
- >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?
- >
- Well this can be done with just about EVERY order by phone service...where you
- can order everything from chia pets to multi-thousand dollar stereos. And
- since the CC #s came from a devliery van they probably have your name, address
- and phone # right there along with the CC#. Ship your items to a P.O. Box at
- Mail Boxes Etc. and you're in business (for at least the 1st month).
-
- >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.
- >
- You convienently deleted the part of my reply that went over this. A small
- amount of change could be kept on hand (say < $50) and the rest of the cash
- could be deposited into a secure lock box inside the delivery truck. 7-11s
- and gas stations use this same tactic to guard cash.
-
- The point is that a legislatively backed monetary standard is necessary to
- provide a 'lowest common denominator' form of payment that everyone can accept.
- Just another way to say "This note is LEGAL tender for ALL DEBTS public and
- PRIVATE." You shouldn't be able to refuse it just because it happens to
- inconveinence you. C'mon Federal Express, get with it.
-
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- Comp Sci & Engr, UCLA | but it didn't do a bit o' good."
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