“deposit them at their bank or a Post Office”
Just a side note for anyone that may think depositing money at a post office is a little strange.......European post offices have a very different function than ours.
Are you saying that their post offices don’t steal elections?
In this country too. Years ago, a long time ago, there were even interest bearing Postal savings accounts. Rural areas were popular for this, I imagine. Lots of business was done at a Post Office, they were a lot more important to the community at one time. There has been some talk recently at reviving this sort of thing.
When I was stationed in South Korea we would hang out at a Pub in Seoul, run by an Australian ex-pat. We could spend our Dollars there, or Korean Won. Usually we exchanged our dollars for Won at a bank at the prevailing rate. The pub would exchange or make the conversion too, but at a less favorable rate of exchange. When somebody complained about this, arguing the banks had a better rate, the bartender smirked and said “Yes, that’s true - but the bank will not serve you a beer”.
OK, maybe ya had to be there. I thought it was funny.
Indeed. In Japan, they are a major part of people's savings.
I do kinda wish I'd bought about $1000 of stamps when they first starting issuing 'forever' stamps. They'd be worth a small fortune now.