Seems it’s going to become a requirement for folk to have an ATM within a three mile range of all homes is it? This got me thinking - as strange as that may seem. I mean the thinking bit.
As we all know we’re been gently guided towards a cashless existence and this is where the thinking bit came in.
Not sure if they’re still a thing, but you remember banks had night safes? A place where shop owners an’ such could ‘deposit’ the daily take? I have no idea but wot do small, many family run, shops
and businesses do with their daily cash takings? Go to the bank once a week? Where’s it kept in the interim? Locked in the shop? A tad iffy, eh? Locked up at home? Possibly iffy plus and both options scary in these increasingly
lawless daze.
And now, with banks shutting branches down a-pace, suddenly I wonder if this is why small and large businesses are doing their best to refuse cash. Could this be owing to their problem of storing cash
safely plus the problem of getting to a bank somewhere? So it’s probably all, I’m sure, part of the plan to hasten our delight of a digitally controlled life...
I’m sure there’s more to the
above in the real world, it’s just a simple fellows simple thinking.
Let’s give all that no never mind and have a little music to pass a phew Friday moments.
“We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.”
3 comments:
Mac,
Around 2003-2005 I had a job making safes. All kinds, from the small floor inset ones to room sized steel vaults. The most popular was the cupboard type you see in films and on TV, about 2.5 feet high and small business owners bought them. Now, these safes were double skinned - an inner and an outer, 6mm steel with the cavity filled with fibrous concrete and sheeted with copper. This was to bugger up oxy acetylene torches and angle grinders. To drill the lock required a diamond drill bit, and even then would be slow going. When the safe was locked, a hardened steel bar inside the door casing dropped into place and blocked the latch from opening. There were two 18mm anchors, one through the back and the other through the floor. This meant that the safe had to be opened before the anchors could be undone, other than that, yank or pry the safe out the wall, and that couldn't really happen in someone's house. So keeping the daily takings at home was probably safer than depositing at the bank night vault.
Ripper,
Yes, I guess a safe is used. In the shop? I hope so as the bad folk will soon figure who has to get from business to home hauling cash.
My folks had a small business and had a safe; I'm going back in time here but all it was was a thick steel walled box with a lock and key. No matter, never much in it...
One of the big customers was Bargain Booze, who at the time were getting done over on a daily basis. These safes were slightly different. An example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/15qssuu/to_rob_an_austrian_store_after_600pm/
The timing was set by the head office of the franchise.
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