[bombcar]

The drive-thru windows are often open LATER and EARLIER than the branch itself, because it's secure the teller can open it the moment she arrives and keep it open almost until she leaves. It's not uncommon for the window to open half an hour before the branch and close up to an hour later.

[kyleee]

pneumatic systems like these are so fun, costco used to have big tubes they sent wads of cash and other things through, and of course there are great articles about the old pneumatic postal infrastructure in paris

[cynwoody]

From 1897 to 1953, New York City operated a pneumatic tube mail transport system. It consisted of 27 miles of tubing connecting 23 post offices and carried 95,000 letters per day, amounting to 30% of the city's mail volume. The canisters were two feet long and eight inches in diameter and could carry 600 letters.[1]

Jams were a bear. Crews would travel the route of the tube and check air pressure at test points every two blocks where the tube surfaced. When they found a drop in pressure at a test point, they would try to free the stuck canister by injecting extra pressure. If that failed, they would have to dig up the street.[2]

In the early 2000s, parts of the network were repurposed to run fiber optic cable.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor... [2]https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01870447/document

[Kye]

Imagine an automated system to transport, plug, and unplug fast SSDs on that system. It could be faster than the fiber.

[CoffeeOnWrite]

Obligatory: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

[bombcar]

The Home Depots around here seem to still have them but I’m not sure how much they’re used.