The Pennies Ending Is Now Here

Those kind of drugs Medicare will pay for!

 

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I'm remembering an old science fiction novel by Rudy Rucker. One of the main characters was a "pheezer", short for "freaky geezer". In the novel, Florida had basically been ceded to them, and they were mostly content to stay high and listen to 60s music. It hits different for me today...

 

Blows my mind that with billions of pennies in circulation that suddenly banks are not supplying them to vendors. Maybe it's due to the fact they are nearly worthless, people unintentionally hoard them in jugs? A lot of banks quit offering coin counters and the Coinstars are one armed bandits.

 

You can get 100% of your money from Coin Star if you don't take the cash option. But yes it is egregious to take 50 dollars from someone and give then a voucher to get back 44 dollars (or w/e) in cash. This is why I just slam the self serve machines with change. I get 100% that way. As for the penny, Canada stopped producing pennies a while back and there's no rioting there over it. If people would redeem their pennies, there would be enough in circulation to last a very long time. Most people now don't even use cash for anything.

 

I think some are in a toilet paper like panic over the cent.

On Youtube i have seen some local TV reports saying the .Gov stopped producing last month and now banks and merchants have run out.

Wait, anyone who ever looked at their change would know that finding a current year cent has always been rather rare. Most coins in circulation are older. How can they all disappear in a month?

 

I always heard 75% of the school age population aren't good at math, and the other two-thirds just don't care.

 

I go to the bank every couple of weeks and get 2 rolls each of quarters, dimes, nickels and cents, gather for a couple of years and then do the search. Today the young lady gave me my loot, and I asked if they were running out of pennies yet and she said that the shipment they had just received had none, so just now starting to hit us here.

I laugh thinking about "panic over pennies", like what happened with the TP. I honestly believe that most people won't notice and even fewer will care. I wouldn't care at all other than not being able to get them to search through.

 

No profit for Brinks, Loomis etc supplying heavy obsolete coinage. There, I said it