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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by aembleton on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:01AM (#30439847)
How do you even pay for rent or utility bills with cash?

I'm 39; so maybe too young to have experienced that but how does it even practically work? Did your landlord pop round once a month? For utility bills, did you go to the bank and ask them to transfer cash to a utility company; or maybe at a post office? Or did the utility company send someone around to collect cash payments?

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by throwaway22032 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:48PM (#30448902)
You're here because you're an engineer, right?

I have a bank account. You give me £100 and tell me to send £100 to 00273 00338435. Done.

As other posters have said, in many countries this is a Service(tm) but generally, unless you've gimped payments anyone can just do this.

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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by aembleton on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:30AM (#30453529)
Good way to clean some dirty money
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Re:In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail ser... by rbut on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:28AM (#30439994)
Rent - Drop cash off at the Real Estate Agent/Property Manager

Bills - Pay in cash at the Post Office

In Australia I still see people in Post Offices waiting to pay their bills. Some simply haven't got out of the habbit yet..

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