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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by brendoelfrendo on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:31PM (#30436416)
Well, yes, but the GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account, which is weird because that is very much a standard service that brick-and-mortar banks provide.

Either the other user was uninformed or my sarcasm detector is broken today.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by pdonis on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:40PM (#30436485)
> he GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account

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.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by ghaff on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:49PM (#30436556)
You can do so online (which I do for many monthly bills). But that doesn't really solve any perceived problems about maintaining anonymity associated with making cash payments buth neither does anything going through a bank.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by mrleinad on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:39PM (#30436920)
In Argentina there's a service named "Pago Mis Cuentas" (Pay My Bills). You can add all your services (gas, electricity, cable, internet, taxes, etc).

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?

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by chc on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:53PM (#30437024)
It's not, because this conversation is specifically about how much worse it would be to pay all your bills in cash, while you seem to be talking about a digital payment.
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by mrleinad on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:47AM (#30443066)
Yes, because of this statement in the parent:

> 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.

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