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17-12-2020, 10:41 PM
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Re: Does anyone remember?

Originally Posted by d00d ->
I once saw in a petrol station cash removed from the till, put in a tube, put in a hole in the floor.
I used to have to do that when I first came down to live in London. When we had a lot of notes in the till we'd count most of them out, put them and a note with the value in the tube and post it.
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17-12-2020, 10:51 PM
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Re: Does anyone remember?

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
I'm sure our Tesco's still used those up until a few years ago (SE). I thought it was an excellent way of moving money out of the till and therefore reducing any chance of theft.

Of course, accidents did happen occasionally. I remember one day, as the tube was moving up the pipe, the screws came loose and the pod went flying across the store, hitting an elderly man in the cobblers. He was ok though, just having a new heel put on his shoe.
Our Tesco still has one, noticed it today while waiting to buy my tobacco. The cashier was putting cash into tubes & putting them into a tube I'd never noticed before on the wall, it goes up to the office & then gets put in a safe I guess. I mentioned it to her.It doesn't come back though, one way only. This was the tobacco & enquiries desk area, the other tills give the money to a supervisor who them must give it to that desk area, I've seen them doing that. Fancy me never noticing that before.
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17-12-2020, 11:06 PM
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Re: Does anyone remember?

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Our Tesco still has one, noticed it today while waiting to buy my tobacco. The cashier was putting cash into tubes & putting them into a tube I'd never noticed before on the wall, it goes up to the office & then gets put in a safe I guess. I mentioned it to her.It doesn't come back though, one way only. This was the tobacco & enquiries desk area, the other tills give the money to a supervisor who them must give it to that desk area, I've seen them doing that. Fancy me never noticing that before.
Just imagine someone upstairs sitting over the hole while doing their shoelace up.
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17-12-2020, 11:11 PM
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Re: Does anyone remember?

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Just imagine someone upstairs sitting over the hole while doing their shoelace up.
Bum tube, heavy too, though I think she was only putting notes in it.
 
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