I mailed in my payment a couple weeks ago and it's in cash. That's not a problem, right?
I'm giving ya'll the benefit of the doubt and assume you guys are busy, though my payment status has yet to be changed.
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Cash is really unsafe because there's no way to track it if it gets stolen/lost in the mail system. :00
Money order or check is awesome-er.
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Quote from: Meirin on October 12, 2008, 08:41:54 PM
I mailed in my payment a couple weeks ago and it's in cash. That's not a problem, right?
Yes, it's a problem. It's not a Fanime problem, but sending cash through the mail is a problem in general.
The cash could get lost in the mail. I just read http://forums.fanime.com/index.php/topic,10764.0.html and it looks like some mail is bouncing. The post office is still quite manual, and humans don't always behave the same way, especially under error conditions. If some mail is bouncing, there's a very good chance that other mail is getting lost entirely. Your cash might be lying in some pile somewhere that might neither reach Fanime nor bounce back to you.
Also, a lot of people handle or have access to mail, and anybody can use cash without getting caught. There's no telling whether any of the large number of postal workers that have to touch the mail might make off with it. They might not mean any harm, but times are hard, they don't get paid that much, and having an extra $45 in free cash might be quite a temptation. If Fanime has a mailbox on the street in a bad neighborhood, then bored hoodlum kids might sort through and take other people's mail after school. The kids can't use checks, but they'd have no problems using $45 in free cash.
In general, it's a very bad idea to send cash through the mail system unless you don't mind losing it. While the mail system might be highly reliable, it's not perfect. Even if they are 99.999% reliable, they handle 580 million items per day, so that .001% is still 5800 lost messages per day, and your cash might be one of those thousands of lost, bounced, damaged, stolen, or improperly delivered messages per day. This is why you don't send cash through the mail. At least, if a check is lost or damaged in the mail, the money is not lost because nobody ever cashes the check.