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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gatzdon, post: 384699, member: 8247&quot;]The mint will record record orders for this for one reason.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can order $500 cash and pay with my rewards card.&nbsp; I collect the 1% to 5% reward and deposit the cash before the credit card payment is due.</p><p><br /></p><p>===========</p><p><br /></p><p>This should be ticking off the Federal Reserve.&nbsp; They are storing on their books all dollar coins with little chance of any bank ever getting them.&nbsp; The depository institutions are going to ship the commemoratives as long as the mint is flipping the bill for the cost of packaging/shipping, but the dollar bags will still keep flowing in. </p><p><br /></p><p>==========</p><p><br /></p><p>What does the mint really need to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>=&nbsp; Talk to Convenience Store owners.&nbsp; Make them realize that they can cut their losses during a robbery by switching out the dollar bills in their drawers for dollar coins and $2 bills.&nbsp; The typical robbery haul is something like $50 to $100 with the bulk of that being $1 bills.</p><p><br /></p><p>=&nbsp; Work with the BEP and Paper lobbyists to shift the focus from $1 bills to $2 bills.&nbsp; The BEP already makes $2 bills, the Federal Reserver and Member Banks are already set up to handle them, and ramping up production of $2 bills should help the lobbyists feel like they have done something to keep the paper suppliers happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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