Tom_in_CA
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Told this story years ago, but here it is again :
About 20 yrs. ago, we had a long series of winter storms that eroded our coast beaches. By the time that winter was over, I had a 3 gallon pale that was nearly full of clad ! There had to be hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of clad, (after removing all the silver coins, of course).
I debated on rolling all the coins, and taking them to the bank, but .... didn't feel like doing that work.
One day, I noticed that in our local post office lobby, there was a vending machine that accept bills or coins, to buy stamps. And since my company sends out about 75 to 100 bills per month, we always went through a roll of stamps or more, every single month.
So I simply went to the machine, with my 3 gallon pale, and started feeding dimes, nickels, and quarters into the machine. When the digital counter reached high enough to buy a roll of 100 stamps, I merely hit the button. I get my stamps. Took all of 5 minutes.
The next few months, I repeated the process, each time feeding $40 to $50 worth of change into it. No need for cleaning, rolling, etc.... And my company gets free stamps. Problem solved, eh ?
To be continued :
About 20 yrs. ago, we had a long series of winter storms that eroded our coast beaches. By the time that winter was over, I had a 3 gallon pale that was nearly full of clad ! There had to be hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of clad, (after removing all the silver coins, of course).
I debated on rolling all the coins, and taking them to the bank, but .... didn't feel like doing that work.
One day, I noticed that in our local post office lobby, there was a vending machine that accept bills or coins, to buy stamps. And since my company sends out about 75 to 100 bills per month, we always went through a roll of stamps or more, every single month.
So I simply went to the machine, with my 3 gallon pale, and started feeding dimes, nickels, and quarters into the machine. When the digital counter reached high enough to buy a roll of 100 stamps, I merely hit the button. I get my stamps. Took all of 5 minutes.
The next few months, I repeated the process, each time feeding $40 to $50 worth of change into it. No need for cleaning, rolling, etc.... And my company gets free stamps. Problem solved, eh ?
To be continued :