Living in the new era in the USA where no more pennies are used.

[Archimedes Plutonium]

So I went to the Post Office to mail some weighty letters. I was given a price and had my change packet with me. I did not want to give my pennies away.

I think it came to 72 cents, and handed him 75 cents. Thinking I would get back 3 pennies.

No, instead he "rounded it out" and gave me back a 5 cent coin.

So, well, this is how it is going to be--- we pretend the 5 cent piece is now the lowest coin.

I guess we go with the nickel for several years into the future, until we find that it costs more in metal than the nickel is worth, and then pretend the dime, the 10 cent piece is the lowest.

At the rate of inflation, it will not be long before the dollar bill itself is the lowest money, and deal only in paper cash.

Let me add this observation to the Dr. Franz Pick book.

Living in the new era in the USA where no more pennies are used.

AP