Getting spending up without the Mint
Mar 23, 2012, 12:01 pm
#1681
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Posts: 1,139
I never got a chance to order the dollar coins but I could use them now! My second car doesn't have EZ Pass since I drive it infrequently. Yet you can't drive on the roads in NJ and NYC without going through 3 toll booths for a 15 mile drive. There are barely any tolls left in the tri-state that are under $1 yet all the tolls booths have "Exact Change Only" lanes that are always empty. The banks give me a funny look when I ask for dollar coins and then after much searching,they scrounge up 3 Sacajawea dollars. Where are all the dollar coins?!!!
The banks could still order them from the Fed, but they won't and don't. Consequently, the dollar coins are almost impossible to find. I wish I would have saved more back to use on mass transit and in vending machines - much more convenient than getting dollar bills into the readers.
Mar 23, 2012, 12:16 pm
#1682
Join Date: May 2010
Location: NJ
Posts: 1,389
I never got a chance to order the dollar coins but I could use them now! My second car doesn't have EZ Pass since I drive it infrequently. Yet you can't drive on the roads in NJ and NYC without going through 3 toll booths for a 15 mile drive. There are barely any tolls left in the tri-state that are under $1 yet all the tolls booths have "Exact Change Only" lanes that are always empty. The banks give me a funny look when I ask for dollar coins and then after much searching,they scrounge up 3 Sacajawea dollars. Where are all the dollar coins?!!!
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Mar 23, 2012, 12:44 pm
#1683
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Land of the parrots and parrotheads
Programs: Several dozen
Posts: 4,820
Yep, my vending machines now take the coins, but where are they Timmie? (Geithner)
Time to offer circulating coins to the public from the Fed!
Time to offer circulating coins to the public from the Fed!
They are at that d___ vault that NPR took pictures at, or at the new facility that NPR claimed was being built to store them. The banks were always the problem. The banks declared that customers did not want them and they refused to circulate the dollar coins to retail or commercial customers; the banks just sent them to the Fed, who stored them in the vaults and warehouses. This was always nonsense. I circulated plenty of dollar coins and I deposited a lot more. I never received a negative reaction when circulating them, in fact it was usually the opposite - people were delighted to receive them. The Mint and the frequent flyers received bad publicity when the bad publicity should have gone to the banks.
The banks could still order them from the Fed, but they won't and don't. Consequently, the dollar coins are almost impossible to find. I wish I would have saved more back to use on mass transit and in vending machines - much more convenient than getting dollar bills into the readers.
The banks could still order them from the Fed, but they won't and don't. Consequently, the dollar coins are almost impossible to find. I wish I would have saved more back to use on mass transit and in vending machines - much more convenient than getting dollar bills into the readers.
Mar 26, 2012, 6:28 pm
#1685
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: AL
Programs: All of the Above
Posts: 1,374
Mar 26, 2012, 6:32 pm
#1686
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: BOS, MHT
Programs: AA ltg, B6, DL, UA, AS, SPG/Marriott Plt, HH, Hyatt
Posts: 10,052
Mar 26, 2012, 8:58 pm
#1687
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posts: 308
Yep, finally got one. It looks just like a junk mail postcard so be careful not to toss it! Here is a picture of it:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
Mar 26, 2012, 9:21 pm
#1688
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Southern California (LAX)
Programs: Marriott Gold, Identity Platnium (Cosmopolitan), Palladium Card, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 177
Yep, finally got one. It looks just like a junk mail postcard so be careful not to toss it! Here is a picture of it:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
Mar 26, 2012, 9:22 pm
#1689
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: BOS, MHT
Programs: AA ltg, B6, DL, UA, AS, SPG/Marriott Plt, HH, Hyatt
Posts: 10,052
Yep, finally got one. It looks just like a junk mail postcard so be careful not to toss it! Here is a picture of it:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
seen em before!
thanks for reminding people.
I should be ok though... yer lookin' at a guy who, as a ruse with a high school friend, once decided to go around to the trash bins and pull out those envelopes with promotions in them where they paste a new nickle in the envelope, but people threw them all away as junk mail and we could easily collect a couple-three or four dollars in 20 minutes hahaha. And ya'll thought dumpster diving was bad!
Mar 26, 2012, 9:31 pm
#1690
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 396
Yep, finally got one. It looks just like a junk mail postcard so be careful not to toss it! Here is a picture of it:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/frequentmiler/2012/03/26/check-for-your-staples-rebate-check/
Mar 27, 2012, 7:28 am
#1691
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 766
Mar 27, 2012, 9:03 am
#1692
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Times Square
Programs: SPG Gold, AAdvantage
Posts: 1,396
Thank you, I didn't know this. And to think the bank tried to hand me 2 Susan B. Anthony dollars in addition to the 3 Sacajawea dollars. I didn't take them because I still think people confuse them for quarters.
