Chris wrote: > Many times, I was going by the bank after a late shift > with a big bag of cash, change, and checks, to put in > the night deposit.
I was on the other side of the fence, working as a teller the summer before college. I was regularly amazed at how trusting people were of the night drop, which I agree is the conceptual precursor to ATM deposits. Folks would stuff a check in an envelope and drop it into the slot, without labeling the envelope and without any indication of what should be done with the check. Usually it would turn out to be a loan payment, but we'd have to infer that based on the printed info on the check and a quick search for which loans were due that week. Sometimes the info on the check wouldn't match any loans or accounts but the tellers would somehow know what it was for anyway! Mistakes crept up every now and then. Envelopes would get stuck on a particular rivet in the night drop slot and fail to make it to the bottom. We also had to keep all the envelopes for a certain number of months, because invariably someone would complain that a deposit hadn't gone through and we'd have to open the bags of empty envelopes to find one that had been overlooked and unopened. I suppose ATM deposits remove that human variability, but I still prefer face to face contact with some accountability and flexibility built in. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30789 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
