Re: Court sez Treasury must make bills discernable by the blind

"Tony Clayton" <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In a recent message "Bruce Remick" <remick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Jon Purkey" <room321_email@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:10:54 -0700 (PDT), RF <fwdixon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > wrote:
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>> >>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_go_ot/blind_money
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>> > Just eliminate all bills and switch entirely to coins. :)
>> >
>> > Seriously, it seems the Treasury Department could add some sort of
>> > raised lettering without significantly increasing the cost of
>> > production. Even small holes could be felt by many blind people. Just
>> > punch the holes when cutting the notes.
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>> Can't you just see the amateur counterfeiters drooling over that?
>>
>> >
>> > Changing the size of the notes would require too many other changes
>> > such as vending machines, money counting machines, the size of the
>> > slots in cash registers, etc.
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>> You're leaving yourself wide open to the "they do it in other
>> countries....." argument.
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> Which they do to make it easy for the blind or partially sighted
> in the UK.
>
> Even our booklets of stamps have one or two notches to make it
> easy to distinguish first and second class stamps.

Clever idea.  Never thought about that.   Though in the US, we have stamps

with many different denominations... and sizes.  If there are any inherent

features that aid a blind person to identify all US first class 42¢
stamps, 
they have not been well publicized.

I found it took about a week in the UK or so to get used arranging
currency 
in my wallet so the small ones wouldn't get lost in between the larger
ones. 
Probably because of my initial unfamiliarity with the money, I also ended
up 
with tons more change in my pocket at the end of the day than I do at
home.