can't you fax it to them?

Why would it be illegal? As long as you are not laundering it!

A lot of grandparents would be in trouble if it was. That sneaky $10 in your birthday card!

It's not illegal, but it's inadvisable.

I've had birthday mail stolen before. Thieves look out for birthday cards and take them in the hopes that there's money in them.

ha ha, awesome, well i am selling handmade t-shirts online and i am trying to work out how to get the money and all that, how can we be sure sneaky postmen won't steal the cash?

What tiny said.

in the past when i have sent cash i have used express post so it doesn't get stolen.

registered post would work too -- but i don't know which is cheaper.

do you recon i'd be right if i recomended that when they mailed me the shirts they want me to draw on, they should wrap the money in the shirt? do they open and search packages like that? i mean packages that are bulky with shirts in them.

Why can't people who buy off you eft the money to you?

i sold stuff thru ebay and sorting out a paypal account was dead easy.

Just write ''contains money, do not lose'' on the outside.

Money orders, which are available at any post office, are exchangeable for cash. Or you could have them deposit directly into your bank, or you could set up a paypal account.

YES FULTON TSHIRTS ARE CONSIDERED CONTRABAND GOODS THESE DAYS.

i don't have a bank account and alot of my ''fans'' don't trust the internet with their money, i trust postmen less than the internet.

i think i might do the paypal thing, it sounds rock solid, maybe the money orders, thanks for all the ideas and stuff dudes.

Find a nice credit union and set up an account.

But seriously, postal money orders are your best bet.

No bank account means it's actually your only option, cos you can't clear cheques

thanks alot modi.

FUCK! what the fuck is with that slurpee add? so much has changed on this website since i signed up here.

Why don't you have a bank account?

i only ever had a job once, so never had much need for one. but that is changing so i better get one.

i don't have a bank account and alot of my ''fans'' don't trust the internet with their money, i trust postmen less than the internet.

How can you not have a bank account? And you won't be able to use paypal without one anyway.

So you don't work, but you don't have a uni loan or get the dole either?

I don't think that Pops and I were trying to defend or support the banks. We were just wondering how someone gets by without a bank account in this day and age when so much of our day to day functioning requires one. Without a bank account it's very hard/almost impossible to obtain an income.

Fair enough.

Yay! Shops within walking distance for all!

Mate, the government could afford to give you more than $2000 a month. No government I have ever heard of went broke because of welfare payments.

Wars? Yeah sure. Bailing out multinational companies? Obviously.

Looking after their own population? Never sends you broke.

The government could double their welfare spending and it would hardly make a ripple in the economy.

Precisely, clarebear.

It had nothing to do with corporate profit or bank fees. Just curiousity how someone gets by on a day to day basis. If you try to deny that you are not dependent on your bank account and eftpos card then I probably won't believe you.

money taped to a piece of cardboard in an envelope>postal orders.

postal orders just cost too much to make it worthwhile unless you're sending hundreds

You can only get a postal order for up to $1000

lucky they aren't sending 10's of hundreds then 'eh?

You can only get a postal order for up to $1000

or an express postal money order which can be upto $10,000 and costs $20

Are these tshirts fulton is making $2000 each, or something?

Does a money order of $10K have to go through Austrac?

I've had money sent to me and by me in the post before (small amounts for records etc) and it's been totally fine but if the mail doesn't arrive, who's at fault? Either slap a $5 registered post option on sales or tell your buyers they send cash through the post at their own risk.

also: if people put coins (or keys!) in there, it breaks the mail sorting machines.

and rips up about 50 letters either side of yours.

it's one of the biggest causes of 'lost' mail.

yes, this is a fact.

as an ex-Aust Post employee ...
NEVER send coins or keys ... or ANYTHING of value through the post (registered or express or anything). If you saw how your mail is actually treated you'd be ill. I don't think theft is the actual problem but folks there couldn't give two craps about your mail, it's just get the job done and go home after your shift, then repeat.

maybe, FGC, you could barter with people, and they could also send a watch, or telephone, or some barley, or linen, or somesuch.

or he could just open a bank account?

in turn nobody will shop there and we'll all go back to the local fruit and veg shops.

i like the sentiment, but yuck: who here buys fruit and veg from safeway anyway?

when you work 9-5 and spend your weekends drunk and/or hungover, there's very little chance to shop elsewhere.

''Are you the annoying person that has to get a friend with a credit card to book your flights?''

haha - this made me laugh! that friend has been me on occasion!

as a user of the mails for hundreds of packages (including sending cash in the pre-internet days where an international money order was the only other option) I have no complaints, I have had only three things not arrive, one was to an address in italy and two from the us, all unregistered but of no real value.

feh, i don't buy that argument de.foxus.