[Positive]

Keep in mind that the Feds have begun to go paperless for a long time now.

No Bills, Notes or Bonds are being printed anymore, they are all issued by wire book entry.

In fact starting in March, ALL Social Security recipients will have no more "checks" only direct deposits into their banks.

Come to think about it, how many trees would it take to make enough paper to print over $3.5 Trillion per year, 50 Million Social Security Checks per Month.

Oh and are we sure we might get a tax refund "check"? They've already announced that they will be "late" due to the reprogramming that's necessary due to the cliff deal.

Don't be surprised if you get a note in the mail from the Treasury asking for your banking info so they can "wire" the refund to you... or will it be an email?

[muawiyah]

Hey, they can go as wireless as they want and at the same time there are still going to be hundreds of thousands of social security recipients living in Mexico and Canada AND, best of all, seasonal workers who have visas to work here ~ not everybody is wired up.

As usual the Englishs peaking native population will need to obey the law ~ everybody else gets an exception. The auditors look right on past those guys.

[muawiyah]

There was a time when Treasury had to send printed checks to Social Security recipients. They'd print them in Philadelphia and load an 18 wheeler that'd go to Florida and make half a dozen stops to turn them over as mail to USPS.

That was first class postage on each and every envelope and essentially third class mail treatment ~ but they got there on time.

Those were very profitable trips. That's all gone, still, there are sufficient schemes that circumvent digital systems that it's overdue for a new handbook on how to create a fake employee so you can lower your effective tax rate.

I'm sure Treasury has tapped into this thread already ~ they should be very afraid.