Who?

I don’t think she faked her death irl, just on fb.

This article just makes the whole situation more confusing and opens up a thousand questions. I give it a D.

Many states have statutes that actually prohibit denying life insurance benefits if it’s been a certain amount of time after the policy was purchased. Usually a year or two.

Did she not leave her house? Did her neighbors or acquaintances never see her.

Okay well not everyone goes to a laundromat

Is there a Reddit way of expressing "sad horn"?

Isn't rule number 1 to not mention having a quiet evening as a paramedic? I think it could be extended to lifeguards not talking about lack of drownings.

She's dead to me now

>and nobody banks in person anyways

Until ATMs start dispensing and accepting coins, I'll still have to.

>Another example is that in most places in europe, cashapps are not a thing because transfers between banks are free, instant and safe.

Two other factors:

1. In the US, having someone's bank routing and account number is enough to initiate a withdrawal from their account. You can't do that with just an IBAN in SEPA countries.

2. SEPA bank transfers still require you to know someone's legal name. One thing some people like about "cashapps" is that you don't need to give the sender your legal name.

The other thing the big banks have going for them is Visa/MasterCard on debit. Credit unions generally don't offer that; your debit card will typically be Interac only, which means it's only good for shopping at physical stores in Canada and the US.

She has the same accountant as Hotblack Desiato.

>Everything is fine in Denmark

Unless you ask a Swede, then they start pointing out lots of things.

Almost. I was kind of caught by surprise one time when I bumped into a laundromat in suburban Copenhagen that was cash only.

"Gimme all the cash in the vault!"

'What's cash?'

No, she's been working for him for a while. Who do you think wrote his campaign bio.

Finally someone not completely ignorant. Most danes will go "There's no corruption in Denmark". Which is exactly the reason corruption runs to unhindered and unnoticed.

Well we have credit unions which fit the bill. I'm not sure why they aren't more popular. Advertising spaces in Canada, of all sorts, are just plastered with the big banks. Free iPad if you open an account type of things. I suspect it works, but am not sure.

Maybe smaller canadian communities should look into banding together to set up some form of service company, not to make a profit, just owned by hundreds of little towns and villages, pay into it by the head, own it by the head, and then just let them provide internet, tv, phone, banking services, etc. At just enough above cost to save up for future investments, and just price the competition out of the market they don't want to serve anyways. And locals can vote on how much they want to subsidise themselves to get better service.

Not bank robberies apparently

All the seniors I know bank almost exclusively in person.

Also your "one or two branches" in each province assertion is demonstrably false. If you aren't from rural Canada you might not be aware that you don't have 6 different banks and a credit union in town. Many towns have one bank. Despite totally capturing the banking for that area, the customer loyalty is zero.

Postal banking would be great for the average Canadian but it costs a lot of money to run a political party and the fancy people who own everything and the ones who run for office go to the same gala dinners.

That may sound like conspiracy but it's just the gross way major companies operate in Canada. We pay crazy high phone bills and bank fees and internet. We have a few major companies selling each of those and their markets are protected.

We have a few major grocery stores. They apparently fixed the price of bread for 14-16 years. So far the biggest consequence has been a $25 gift certificate from one of the companies involved. I think you have to give up your right to sue, though.

Anyways, in my opinion we support these totally not capitalist entities with protection legislation and we don't really help smaller companies trying to innovate in actual competitive environments. It is perverse.

Yep I grew up in the Canadian bush, the bank I opened an account with 30 years or more ago was moved to a city bank.

Edit: 40 minutes away.

We only have a few banks in Canada and they are billion dollar a quarter behemoths with no real competition, much like our media companies. They have gala dinners with all the important political people so I don't think that is going to change anytime soon. There are credit unions as an alternative but there are trade offs to using them, for the average person it probably has more to do with the marketing reach of the big banks, to be honest.

The crazy thing is, they want to close branches but still want you to come in for high touch service so they can try to sell you stuff. Like I was trying to transfer money in from another bank and they wanted me to come in to discuss. They have two different agendas that conflict at the moment.