Too Much Money...

...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.

CopyCub:

I tried the same thing in my area and couldn't get them. So I started using the million dollar bills that are available.

They cost less and seemed to work as well.

Slightly dampen the bill with water.....lightly spray with Spray Starch...iron bill on low steam setting..almost as good as new.

Be thankful...the lowest denomination bill I can mail here is a $5 bill

Yup! a little starch and an iron make them almost as good as new.

Maybe I can turn this into a business opp