...in circulation??

Ok, I live in the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia). Within 15 minutes walking distance, there are five banks.

I have this direct mail campaign that I wanted to use a dollar-bill as the grabber (only two letters via FedEx), but this isn't about direct mail.

I went to all five banks and asked for 2 crisp-new dollar bills.

Did I get them....

No!

Not one bank had new dollar bills.

I was dumb-founded. "You don't have any?"...teller "nope, we no longer get new money each month".

So all they had were wrinkly and crumbled ones.

I guess the Fed has hasn't shut down their printing press yet.

Matt

FYI - I came up with a creative way to flatten old bills out good enough to mail.