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Re: Why can't we get rid of 1p, 2p, 5p coins?

From Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com>
Newsgroups uk.finance
Subject Re: Why can't we get rid of 1p, 2p, 5p coins?
Date 2019-05-18 10:32 +0800
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On Fri, 17 May 2019 21:14:46 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
<CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

>On Fri, 17 May 2019 05:51:31 +0100, Chris in Makati <mail@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 May 2019 16:09:15 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
>> <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 16 May 2019 13:17:44 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 16 May 2019 00:33:56 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
>>>> <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It would have been more hassle to do some kind of bank transfer.
>>>>
>>>> It's a lot easier than searching for coins.
>>>
>>> She didn't search, she just took a fiver out of her purse.
>>>
>>>> I pay my gardener and my main carer by bank transfer. It's been setup
>>>> in my Lloyd Internet account for years. My wife has tried to get her
>>>> RBS Internet account to do the same thing but it's so "secure" that
>>>> it's impossible to use!
>>>
>>> Way too much hassle.  Handing someone a twenty quid note is way easier.  I wouldn't mind if they could take cards, but portable card readers cost too much.
>>
>> That's fine if it happens to be an exact number of Pounds, but what if
>> the eBay item was £15.50? One of you would have had to search around
>> for the right change to give.
>
>No, somebody would just say keep the change.  And people tend to have coins kicking about.  Cash is so much easier than farting around logging into bank accounts.
>
>> This is one of the annoying things that happens in shops. People in
>> front of you in the queue spend ages counting out notes and coins to
>> hand to the cashier.
>
>Nope.  Last time I used cash, I just handed a few £20 notes to the cashier and got a handful of change back.  Took no longer than using a card.  She was getting the coins from the till while I was putting the goods in the trolley anyway.
>
>> I just tap my contactless card on the reader and
>
>Actually, you don't tap it.  There's no physical detection of contact with the pad.  You wave it nearby.

Actually, I do tap it.

http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/contactless_consumer/How_to_use_a_Contactless_card.asp

"Simply touch your contactless card or device against the terminal."

You wave your card around like a flag if you want. It's better to hold
it steady to let the terminal read it.

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