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by Kwpolska 480 days ago
What are those mythical actions that can't be done outside of a physical location? How many of them are things you do ~once in a lifetime, like getting a mortgage?
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I need 100 rolls of quarters. I need 500 $2 bills. I need to change my pin on a debit card.

I need to change all these $2 bills and quarters into $20 bills.

Trivial examples that I have done at my bank. Maybe drbit cards now don't need to be put into a machine to change the pin anymore, idk.

The PIN thing can be done online at both of my banks.

As for the cash stuff, those are things you may need to do if you’re a shopkeeper, but I can’t imagine a reason why I would do that myself. Banks over here will sometimes charge fees for changing cash.

in the US $2 bills are an icebreaker. There's still a lot of people that don't believe they're real. I also used them as incentives for my kids to go above and beyond with their communal chores. The quarters thing i haven't done personally but i was adjacent to for a club, it was for a game in a booth at an event.

banks here don't charge, as one of their expected roles is to change money in the US.