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- From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Sorry, we don't accept cash... Huh?
- In-Reply-To: tzs@stein.u.washington.edu's message of 3 Jan 1993 17:24:35 GMT
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- Sender: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:56:34 GMT
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- In article <1i77gjINNcp2@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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- >because it is not a good idea to send cash through the mail. I would, however,
- >expect any company (credit card/gas/phone/etc.) to take cash If I paid at
- >their office in person.
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- What if almost all customers of the company do not use cash? As an extreme
- example, would you really expect to be able to walk into Boeing and pay
- cash for a 767? So few of their customers pay cash (none, probably), that
- they probably do not have a procedure set up to deal with a large amount
- of cash.
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- Most likely it's that they don't want their drivers carrying cash. Who's
- going to rob a truck full of worthless credit card slips and checks made
- out to Federal Express?
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