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Small savings accounts at your local post office used to be a thing in the US, back in the days when banks mostly catered to wealthy urban customers, and seems
by alexjm 4y ago
Small savings accounts at your local post office used to be a thing in the US, back in the days when banks mostly catered to wealthy urban customers, and seems to have done elsewhere too:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system>
Seeing the high fees that some banks charge, I'd love to see USPS savings accounts come back as some low-fee competition.