I'm not a cash person, but this is literally how cash deposits work (in the US). You fill out a deposit slip with your account information, hand the slip and the cash to the teller, and that's about it. If you own checks, your check book probably came with some deposit slips pre-filled with your account information.
I have online banking on my phone, if you wanna give me cash to send it to someone, no problem, why not.
Exactly.
No need to interact with any of those pesky humans.
Either the other user was uninformed or my sarcasm detector is broken today.
No, I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
When there's a new bill for the services you added, it's displayed on a list with checkboxes right beside each one of them. Check the ones you want to pay, click Pay, and you're done. It's linked directly to your bank account. The website was created by a bank consortium.
Is a service like that what you're talking about?
> I said I had never heard of any bank offering the service of taking all the account numbers of all the bills I have to pay and paying them for me out of my bank account.
I wasn't talking about cash deposits. I was talking about paying bills. I can't go to my bank and give them the account numbers of all my bills and have the bank pay them for me. If I wanted to pay each bill in cash, I would have to schlep to each individual company I pay bills to and pay them.
For example, in Japan, you can pay bills by taking them to the local konbini - which is probably no more than a couple minutes walk away - then handing them the bills. They scan barcodes, take your cash, stamp the bills, give you your change. Done. No need for ID or a bank account.
The reason that people can’t easily pay bills in cash in the US is not because it can’t be done.
Banks do offer bill pay services, you just set it up and they mail a check every month. To your point, I don't think there's a way to get your bank to send the recipient cash every month, but I feel like that's a moot point since your cash is already in the banking system at that point.
Telephone banking used this before internet banking.
So don't use it. Non issue right?
Otherwise, dealing with the public comes with some costs. The benefit is being able to do business and turn a profit.
Picking and choosing is an abuse of the public.
I'm out yo, physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite.
This has nothing to do with sitting at my desk. Using cash would mean spending my Saturday at one of the least interesting location I can think of.
I never said any of those things. And the idea that schlepping around all over the place to pay monthly bills in person is the best way to get physical exercise is laughable.
> physical interactions are better than this GPT-3 shite
IMO your posts read a lot more like GPT-3 than mine.
Coming soon for this market, "brain in a jar". Upload your consciousness into an Altered Carbon simulation, Source Code time loop or immortal-gaming-AI Daemon.
After gig economy workers unionize and raise delivery fees, hopefully they won't hire a mercenary army to enforce Code of Customer Conduct.
I've never heard of any bank offering that service.
> no-one is saying that literally every transaction has to be done in cash, just that it should be _possible_ to do so.
Agreed. But it should also be recognized that there are many people who have good reasons to use payment methods other than cash in many situations.
> The idea that cash is this hilariously inconvenient thing is a complete fabrication
No one is claiming that cash is always inconvenient. Just that for many people in many situations, it is.
> You're talking about moving small physical things
If I have to go pay my bills in person, I have to move me, not just some pieces of paper. And if I pay my bills electronically while I'm sitting at my desk at home, I don't have to move anything at all.