I'm still getting used to them, I suppose. I use credit and debit cards for just about everything so I don't handle that many of the new bills. One thing I do notice a lot, mind you, is when getting change back (at, say, a grocery store), the cashier will hold the polymer bill between their thumb and forefinger and rub them back and forth a few times to make sure they aren't giving you an extra $20 in change. I've heard a few of them say "I've given away too many $20's as change already because of these things." And that's happened to us. My wife and I were in a grocery store a couple of months ago and the cashier gave us two $50s as part of our change instead of one. It looked like one, felt like one, but there were two of them there; we had to go back into the store to return it to the kid (it would have come out of her pay otherwise).travzilla wrote:I love 'em, but it's true that most people aren't fans. Everyone says the stick together (static cling on the plasticy part). i handle hundreds of these a day and it's not a problem, but then again i have always suspected i have magic fingers.
Having two polymer bills stuck together is particularly easy to miss if they are mixed in with a bunch of older, paper, bills.
Mind you, the tellers say that counterfeiting is down by over 90% (although that could simply be because the counterfeiters haven't figured out the new bills yet).
