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As far as I know you can pay all of these bills in cash at any 
major bank and you can sometimes pay at licenced companies
such as Money Mart.  

What's the point anyhow?   Cash is dead.


Trikky T wrote:
> 
> In a recent article, Colin Newell <rnewell@unix.uvic.ca> decided to
> spout forth with:
> 
> >There seems to be a trend amongst Companies like BCtel, CANtel, BCHydro,
> >BCTel and the like
> >in the Province of British Columbia to refuse paper money in financial
> >transactions and bill payments.
> >
> >Do they have the right to refuse paper money ?
> >
> >I was under the impression that paper money is legal tender in any
> >situation.
> >
> >Am I wrong ?
>         Technically speaking, if you go prepared to pay the bill, in
> full, and they REFUSE to accept your bill payment, you no longer have
> to pay the bill.  Why?  Because you intended to pay and had the means
> to pay and all the required documentation yet they refused to accept
> your payment.  Once payment is declined -- as long as it's payment in
> regular fashion (no coconuts, rocks, etc) --  then they have declined
> it and refused your offer of payment.
> 
>         Of course, if they refuse payment from you in the form of
> legal tender (i.e. Canadian currency) then you've definitely got them.
> A tape recorder, recording them refusing your payment outright would
> likely come in handy should they cut off your service for non-payment.
> 
>         Any other thoughts on this issue?
> 
> >
> >Colin Newell
> >Technician - Technical Services
> >Computing and User Services
> >University of Victoria
> >Victoria B.C. Canada
> >
> 
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S.R. Macdonald wrote:
> 
> As far as I know you can pay all of these bills in cash at any
> major bank and you can sometimes pay at licenced companies
> such as Money Mart.
> 
> What's the point anyhow?   Cash is dead.

Cash is dead?  What kind of a comment it that?   It's that kind of
attitued that the government and large corporations just *love* to see. 
It's what they want.  

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Colin Newell wrote:
> 
> There seems to be a trend amongst Companies like BCtel, CANtel, BCHydro,
> BCTel and the like
> in the Province of British Columbia to refuse paper money in financial
> transactions and bill payments.
> 
> Do they have the right to refuse paper money ?
> 
> I was under the impression that paper money is legal tender in any
> situation.

Don't expect any support from government.  They would love to see cash
disappear.  The only way to stop this, is for everyone to pay cash. 
Both you and I know that that's very unlikely to happen.  The utility I
work for stopped taking cash a year or so ago. 
They don't want any customers to come into the offices, each walk in
customer costs them $1.50 or so.  IMO, any company that doesn't take
cash, makes waaayyyy too much money.

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In a recent article, Colin Newell <rnewell@unix.uvic.ca> decided to
spout forth with:

>There seems to be a trend amongst Companies like BCtel, CANtel, BCHydro,
>BCTel and the like
>in the Province of British Columbia to refuse paper money in financial
>transactions and bill payments.
>
>Do they have the right to refuse paper money ?
>
>I was under the impression that paper money is legal tender in any
>situation.
>
>Am I wrong ?
	Technically speaking, if you go prepared to pay the bill, in
full, and they REFUSE to accept your bill payment, you no longer have
to pay the bill.  Why?  Because you intended to pay and had the means
to pay and all the required documentation yet they refused to accept
your payment.  Once payment is declined -- as long as it's payment in
regular fashion (no coconuts, rocks, etc) --  then they have declined
it and refused your offer of payment.

	Of course, if they refuse payment from you in the form of
legal tender (i.e. Canadian currency) then you've definitely got them.
A tape recorder, recording them refusing your payment outright would
likely come in handy should they cut off your service for non-payment.

	Any other thoughts on this issue?


>
>Colin Newell
>Technician - Technical Services
>Computing and User Services
>University of Victoria
>Victoria B.C. Canada
>

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In article <36929E73.93B7CC32@unix.uvic.ca>,
Colin Newell  <rnewell@unix.uvic.ca> wrote:
>I was under the impression that paper money is legal tender in any
>situation.

I'm pretty sure that "legal tender" only means they're *allowed* to accept
it, not that they're *required* to accept it.  But as the saying goes, I
Am Not A Lawyer, and it's really a question that should be asked of a lawyer.

In any case, I think it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to get out of
paying the bill just because they refused your money, despite what the other
poster said and no matter how appealing the idea may be.
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