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		fphhotchips on Nov 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things I still can't do in November 2014 We do? I wrote my message on this from Australia, still frustrated by the level of convenience we have. It's actually worse in some places?

jacques_chester on Nov 25, 2014 [–]

When I explain EFT and EFTPOS to Americans, they're often surprised that we Australians had it for decades.

The USA flew men to the moon, built the bomb and invented the internet. Their principal form of funds transfer is still with pieces of paper. Pieces of actual paper.

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