ATM's down today? 3/3/2024

[jkor]

I went to 5 ATM's here in Salem, OR and they were all not available. they were on, it read your card, but then said the ATM was not available. I started thinking, oooohhh .. its hitting the fan!

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[jkor]

I used the debit card at a store just fine.

 

[Nosferatu]

Unless you're the federal government, you must have a positive account balance to withdraw from an ATM.

 

[jkor]

but, really, it didn't say ISF. it would not pull up any card function. commercial street, Walmart ATM, and 4 more down the line Chase? MAPS FCU, Wellsfargo, can't think of the others. multiple cards. a few had paper taped to them saying unavailable.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I was able to both withdraw and deposit cash at my local US Bank atm today?

Edit, also debit card worked just fine at another place.

 

[Knobgoblin]

All the cash that didn't go to Ukraine was already paid out in welfare checks last Friday.

 

[Tlock]

I haven't used a atm in years, I try to keep a significant amount of cash on hand at all times. It's gotten me some great deals when minutes count!

 

[Knobgoblin]

I haven't used a atm in years, I try to keep a significant amount of cash on hand at all times. It's gotten me some great deals when minutes count!

 

[jkor]

I haven't used a atm in years, I try to keep a significant amount of cash on hand at all times. It's gotten me some great deals when minutes count!

I guess dollar bills would make good pillow fill

 

[Tlock]

I guess dollar bills would make good pillow fill

You been spying on me???

 

[Nosferatu]

I guess dollar bills would make good pillow fill

For the poors, maybe. The real ballers stuff them with hundos.

 

[Tlock]

I'd have a pretty dam small pillow, now 1s I stopped spending a couple years ago and could make a real nice fluffy pillow

 

[Nosferatu]

I'd have a pretty dam small pillow, now 1s I stopped spending a couple years ago and could make a real nice fluffy pillow

Try quarters.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I'd have a pretty dam small pillow, now 1s I stopped spending a couple years ago and could make a real nice fluffy pillow

Try quarters.

Pennies.

 

[Nosferatu]

Pennies.

If you stuff your pillows with pennies, what are you supposed to reload your 10ga shotshells with?

 

[CamoDeafie]

If you stuff your pillows with pennies, what are you supposed to reload your 10ga shotshells with?

Tokens from Wunderland?

 

[ob1]

It's not like atms have giant subterranean cash vaults underneath.
They are replenished by a cash truck if they are stand alone drive-up machines and from inside if they are built in to a branch. When cash gets low, a resupply order is sent, which could take some time to arrive. The bigger banks have their own central cash vaults and when they get low they get shipments from the Federal Reserve Bank branches.
If the machines get low, you may get your request in a different denomination, which is why you sometimes get twenties instead of hundreds.
You can frequently experience empty machines on the weekends. When this happens , try a machine as far as possible from malls etc.

 

[TTSX]

This reads like a knee jerk tinfoil hat reaction to a very explainable coincidence

 

[gmerkt]

I've never used an ATM. Don't have a card, so I can't. Instead, I have CIW. That's, Cash in Wallet.

Not having a debit card puts me in the main lines at Winco. Boo Hoo. That's the only place where I've found that I'm at a disadvantage for not having one. BofA tellers tried for years to foist one off on me, but they've given up.

Come to think of it, having a debit card would keep me away from BofA tellers. Which I try to avoid anyway. Because these days, anyone getting into a line at the bank is a Problem Person. Normal people don't have to queue up at the bank, they do bank stuff on their smartphone. Of course I don't have one of those, either. So there you go.

Which reminds me of being in line at Fred Meyer customer service. Sometimes we take things back that don't please us, another story in itself. CS at Fred Meyer also does money transactions. If you get in line behind someone who is buying 10 money orders to Zimbabwe, it's going to suck, big time. Especially now that these CS desks often only have one employee on deck.

 

[Tlock]

I've never used an ATM. Don't have a card, so I can't. Instead, I have CIW. That's, Cash in Wallet.

Not having a debit card puts me in the main lines at Winco. Boo Hoo. That's the only place where I've found that I'm at a disadvantage for not having one. BofA tellers tried for years to foist one off on me, but they've given up.

Come to think of it, having a debit card would keep me away from BofA tellers. Which I try to avoid anyway. Because these days, anyone getting into a line at the bank is a Problem Person. Normal people don't have to queue up at the bank, they do bank stuff on their smartphone. Of course I don't have one of those, either. So there you go.

I like your style!