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At my bank you have to talk to tellers only over a video screen, which annoys me. But the pneumatic tubes you use to exchange checks, slips, cash, and other mat
by jrochkind1 2y ago
At my bank you have to talk to tellers only over a video screen, which annoys me. But the pneumatic tubes you use to exchange checks, slips, cash, and other materiel makes up for it, they are so fun to use. (The system is presumably for teller safety)
- InitialLastName 2y agoI can think of other reasons to use the tubes: - At my bank, it lets them operate multiple lanes of drive-through without a teller directly at each lane. - The failure case of handing valuable, loose slips of paper back and forth from a car window to a building is a whole lot worse than for a bag of fast food.
- jrochkind1 2y agoThere may be other reasons! But I should have been more clear, in this example it's not a drive-through, it's an inside lobby with human beings standing in a room! Instead of waiting in line to talk to a teller through a window, you wait in line to talk to a video screen with a phone handset and a pneumatic tube.
- justinhj 2y agoSeems a bit dystopian
- jrochkind1 2y agoAgreed. But at least I get to play with pneumatic tubes. Hey, come to think of it, dystopian pneumatic tube world is the movie Brazil https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/