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New technology for Fed's money-counting machines
Now the Federal Reserve's money-counting machines can read bills worth $20 or less even if they're upside-down. They used to destroy bills that weren't stacked correctly.
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This final note today: Next time you see your bank teller obsessively taking all the bills in her drawer and sorting them so they're all face up and turned the right way, tell her she doesn't have to do that anymore.
Here's the deal: For years, the money-counting machines at the Federal Reserve would destroy bills that went into its currency-counting machines facing the wrong way.
Yes, destroy.
Good news is that new technology now lets the Fed count money whether it's upside-down or not.
Me? I'm still gonna make my wallet look nice and tidy.
I'm with you, Kai. I hate dollar bills that are every which way, not to mention all jumbled together. I rarely pay for things with cash any more (you've got to love debit cards and LevelUp) but when I do have cash I always have to face them all the same way.
I am the same way, Kai! It started for me years ago when I was a swing manager at a McDonalds and I had to count drawers. I had to keep the money going in the same direction, and I still do it to this day in my own wallet...if I don't, I feel completely disorganized!
