A Strange ACH Corner Case

By Jeff Kaufman 🔸 @ 2024-02-10T03:10 (+17)

This is a crosspost, probably from LessWrong. Try viewing it there.

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Imma @ 2024-02-10T09:01 (+5)

I can't help smiling even though it s*cks. Donating is complicated.

A few years ago, I spent the last working day of the year rushing on a bicycle between 2 bank offices in order to get a donation through (successfully).

Always leave a few days of extra time before 31 December...

Jason @ 2024-02-10T15:23 (+4)

Somewhat relatedly, failures of the postal service to postmark the correct date are fairly common. So I record a video of me dropping donation checks in a blue postal mailbox[1] in December (which then upholds to Google Photos, thus establishing time/date) to establish the date of unconditional delivery of said checks.

  1. ^

    I don't have my own mailbox, but one could argue that placing an envelope in your own mailbox isn't unconditional because you could pull the envelope out.