When they sold the postal service, they removed the law that gave them monopoly on mail
To day letters are being delivered by the paper advertisement company, neswpaper boy or other service

I wouldn't call it a right

Certainly is a feature of a free society

the ability to transfer your own property around?

Money is not property

well..... sort of....

what is it then?

under U.S. law it sort of is

Banks own it

You just use it

in the U.S. the federal reserve owns the note

but you own the money

Not if it's in a bank account

sure, but I'm talking about cash here

Once you transfer it to a bank, it's theirs

My confidence is high in the stable electric grid, (i helped built it) last power outage was in 1998 and only affected the capital area for 4 hours

Cash doesn't need laundering

lol yes it does

it's all serialed

at least, these days it is

It's impossible to trace

beyond that, a lot of it is marked with dyes or other chemicals

which are used to trace it in addition to the serials

That's why you use old notes

If you are doing something like that

they don't survive that long

it has recently become more important with crypto
i think blockchain.info implements automatic money laundering mechanisms for economic privacy

Old notes get hoarded

@EndangeredProdigy http://www.uspapermoney.info/general/number.html

Thats why they are disappearing

there really is not much printed currency from before the mid 1930s

I wonder how it's in Russia/China ? does mastercard also have power there ?

The only way you can trace money is from Bank to bank

in fact, the serials predate the federal reserve

Normal stores don't examine that

sure, but you can investigate from that

money goes to banks pretty quickly

dude

You can't determine who used it though

like seriously people do this for a living

I'm aware