I think I’m going to be sick. In fact, it’s a miracle everyone in the world’s not constantly coughing, cramping and generally feeling cadaverous all the time. Let me tell you why.
Recently I received a dollar bill with a wheresgeorge.com stamp on it. Oh how fun, I thought as I headed over to the money tracking website to discover where my bill had been. Turns out it had hit, (wheresgeorge jargon for someone posting they had received the bill) 3 times since it was registered and it had traveled about 1,000 miles.
So that made me curious for more fun facts about cash and so I Googled it. Big, big mistake! Apparently my money and your money is filthy. And I don’t mean just a little bit. Time magazine reported that studies show a solid majority of U.S. bills are contaminated by cocaine. I find that particular stat more odd than nauseating, but Time marched on.
I always knew money wasn’t clean but Time says that notes can reportedly carry more germs than a household toilet. Great. And that dollar bills can reportedly transport a live flu virus for up to 17 days!
Maybe we need to develop a new marketing slogan here at ARCA. Something like, ARCA Cash Recyclers Kiss Communicable Diseases Goodbye or Our Safes Are Smart And Sanitary. I wonder if we’d have to get FDA approval and add one of those really long legal disclaimers.
To learn more about how cash recyclers reduce your exposure to contaminated cash and improve your cash management, here’s a short video with our friend and industry expert Jeff Hauser. I’m off to wash my hands.