The thing is, in Finland the notes visit banks VERY often. If you stamp 100 notes, you might possibly have one hit with two of them.. The others usually get destroyed withing weeks, maybe even within days!Ticonderoga wrote:I'm surprised at the apprehension some of you have towards scribbling on notes - even in the tougher countries like Finland and Germany. So what if the note gets taken out of circulation? If it gets 4 hits before it does, what's the problem? They all come out of circulation anyways.
Anyhow, if your note, stamp, or scribble is discreet, most bank staff won't even see it anyways. Most notes are briefly looked at. A banker handling thousands of notes isn't going to check each one for stamps or notes.
And even if they did search every stamp, if everyone stamped/noted their bills, eventually it would become more "common" and less bills would be pulled as a result.
5€ notes have a chance of surviving even over a month without being destroyed, but still, the experience shows that in Finland even they won't last long if stamped.
What the banks are doing is ridiculous, but there's nothing we can do about it. And knowing the Finnish mentality, I am very sure that if we kept on flooding the notes with EBT stamps, nothing would be gained. Maybe it could work elsewhere, but Finnish banks would just say it's annoying that they have to work extra because they want to do something useless..
The Finns have the customer is always wrong mentality so deep in their heads, that in such situation the bank would only go to war against its customers rather than do something reasonable..
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(In the near of Buffoioni) the Buffoioni part makes no sense to me...
