about once a month my mom sends me to the post office with a $20 bill and tells me to buy her 20 stamps and keep the change. usually i stick the twenty in the machine and it spits out 10 $1 coins and 2 dimes as change. today i walked in for the first time since last month and there was a new machine. i couldnt find where to put the money, so i asked someone inside, and they told me it could only take credit and debit cards. i guess this is one less way that $1 coins are getting into circulation . they didnt even have any in the cash register, just a pile of greenbacks now -.- . anyone elses PO switch their machines ?
Ours too. Which is okay with me, they are more likely to give you the correct change and your stamps.
Does Canada Have a post office anymore? Heard tell of it's demise which would be most regrettable.........
Reminds me of my younger-year visits to the Canadian Ballet, but those little dollar coins allowed for some rather interesting treats though.
We have a pigeon machine at our Post office,it's very modern all air mail....yup you put your money in and bird comes out. Ya tie your message to it leg and off it goes......if you want insurance because of all the Hawks in the area that's additional . Insurance is very costly through as they use a F 18 fighter to fly as the pigeon wing man. But you can't imagine the look on the red tails hawks face just before he vaporizer . You know what they say the mail must go through .
It's just another example of an incompetent government working at cross purposes with itself. Back before 2000, other than cities with major mass transit programs, the main way the SBA's got into circulation was from those stamp machines in the post offices. When the Sac dollar was introduced in 2000 the government issued several guidelines to encourage the use of the coin. One of them was for them to be used extensively at the post offices and it was mandated that the machines dispense the dollar coins. At the same time they issued directives phasing out the stamp machines announcing that they would all be gone within three years. Make sure the machines use the coins but get rid of the machines. And all the machines were supposed to be gone in three years, but obviously 15 years later there are still post offices out there that still have them.
I live in a small town, population about 200-300 and there is no stamp machine in the post office. I print my own postage so the post office is just a drop off location for me.
