In message , at 06:13:27 on
Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson remarked:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, they are.
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Roland Perry

Charles Ellson wrote:

Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, it's a pain in the a*se when you're looking in your wallet to find
the right notes to pay with...

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Roland Perry writes:

In message , at 06:13:27
on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson
remarked:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, they are.

Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all
banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people.

Graham Murray wrote:

Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against
blind people.

Not really. There are plenty of situations in life where one group of
people is advantaged/disadvantaged with respect to another. It's only
discriminatory if it is done either with the desire of causing a
specific outcome of that kind, or else in contravention of relevant
rules that are designed to avoid such an outcome.

That is not to say that the blind and those who lobby on their behalf
couldn't make sufficient noise to shame the US Federal Reserve into
doing something about it.
--
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(20 309 at Morecambe, 6 Apr 2005)

On Jun 22, 11:57*am, Graham Murray wrote:
Roland Perry writes:
In message , at 06:13:27
on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson
remarked:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, they are.

Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all
banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people.

Yes. A US Federal appeals court decided exactly that last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7412051.stm

PaulO

Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Hmmm, Canadian bank machines routinely dish out our $50's, though the
machines are usually identified and at locations where "regular" $20
dispensers are also available.

US ATMs generally only dispense $20 bills; it makes them simpler and
requires less refilling if there's only one bill type. There are still
a few that give out $5 and $10 bills as well, though they're rare. Ones
in casinos will give you $100 bills, since they accept them at the
tables and that's where they want you spending your money. I've never
seen a US ATM dispense $50 bills.

There are at least 3 ATMs within a 5 mile radius of my residence that
dish out $50 bills. So they do exist.

John Mara wrote:

Chris Tolley wrote:
Graham Murray wrote:

Having all banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against
blind people.

Not really. There are plenty of situations in life where one group of
people is advantaged/disadvantaged with respect to another. It's only
discriminatory if it is done either with the desire of causing a
specific outcome of that kind, or else in contravention of relevant
rules that are designed to avoid such an outcome.

In a 2 to 1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit said the existing currency system
violates the federal Rehabilitation Act. The judges said that the
Treasury Department must find a way to accommodate the needs of the
visually impaired.

I didn't know that the Rehabiltation act had such provisions; I thought
it was just concerned with employment and communications. I suspect that
in a typical lawyerly way some unrelated provision has been claimed to
have been written with the intention of conferring such rights.

Still, it is progress of a sort, no matter how it has been arrived at.

--
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(43 101 at Peterborough, 3 Sep 1979)

"Graham Murray" wrote in message
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Roland Perry writes:

In message , at 06:13:27
on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson
remarked:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, they are.

Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all
banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people.

I thought that the US Federal Reserve had added colour to their notes in
recent years, which should help. One would think that they would also put
some form of braille on notes to help delineate. A least one European states
that I can think of had been doing that well before the euro was introduced.

Don't euro notes have a form of braille? I can't remember off hand.

wrote:

I have, however, had problems with Northern Irish notes - even from
places that don't give Scottish notes a second glance!

Is that because there was that big bank heist aboiut 3 1/2 years ago? I
remember seeing signs in pubs months afterwards that Northern Irish notes
would not be accepted.

This was late 2005 but no-one ever said anything about that. I suspect it
was more ignorance of the different notes.

In message
wrote:

"Graham Murray" wrote in message
...
Roland Perry writes:

In message , at 06:13:27
on Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Charles Ellson
remarked:
Aren't US banknotes also all the same size

Yes, they are.

Does the USA not have disability discrimination legislation? Having all
banknotes the same size is surely discrimination against blind people.

I thought that the US Federal Reserve had added colour to their notes in
recent years, which should help. One would think that they would also put
some form of braille on notes to help delineate. A least one European
states that I can think of had been doing that well before the euro was
introduced.

Holland.


Don't euro notes have a form of braille? I can't remember off hand.



Strangely enough, no.

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