Re:USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
by drocer88 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @07:55PM
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Some people in the U.S. don't have bank accounts and may need to pay a bill.
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Re:USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
by thecureforzits on Sunday June 28, 2020 @08:46PM
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More like many. About 6.5% of US households do not have a bank account. There's also the concept of the "under-banked", which covers people who have them but still use non-bank fiscal implements such as payday loans and money orders. That number is about 19% of US households.
Re:USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
by throwaway0a5e on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:12PM
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Poor people have no problem paying in cash for most services.
When an organization does a lot of business using money orders that's a red flag that it's an organization so in the wrong, so terrible, that it can't trust its employees not to skim cash and look the other way when they see each other skim cash.