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Someone working there figured out that the tube system passed above the false roof in the men’s staff bathroom and intercepted some of these capsules while they were in transit.
Watching my parents go through the drive in bank teller using pneumatic tubes to send items back and forth is such a fun cool memory I have from my childhood. In a funny way, it still feels way more “sci-fi future tech” than pressing a touch screen and wait 4 seconds for a change to happen… or not.
They still use those here. My local bank had candies, like tootsie rolls, that they'd send with withdrawals if parents let them know they had kids in the car. It was always such a treat to watch the cool pneumatic tube and then get a sugary treat to top it all off.
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Oh its here. Metro Detroit. It gets cold. The thought of banks not having pneumatic tubes is so strange to me I'm chuckling here. Seeing you reminisce about something that I see almost daily is a weird culture shock in that people in our same country experience life is somehow completely opposite ways. It's like if someome told me there a secret Blockbuster still serving some quiet neighborhood in the country and for…
> Seeing you reminisce about something that I see almost daily is a weird culture shock How about: i legitimately thought that the pneumatic tube system i saw in Futurama where Hermes saves the day was a made up thing (or otherwise not commercially used or deployed outside of some sort of lab setting) until i came across this submission? I feel so silly right now.
While mail tubes are cool, I still think that the pneumatic garbage system on Roosevelt Island is even cooler. https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan...
Here's what a router looks like.[2]
[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the...
I don’t understand how such a thing didn’t have constant blockages and what kind of nightmare it would be to dig up and unblock one of these in the middle of the city.
But my parents' Midwestern bank used to have these too in the 70s, always thought it was so cool.
Imagine a packet-switched physical network!
Imagine if we really did add a series of tubes to the internet!
Get on it, Amazon\Elon (or better yet... it should be a publicly owned utility).
Watching my parents go through the drive in bank teller using pneumatic tubes to send items back and forth is such a fun cool memory I have from my childhood. In a funny way, it still feels way more “sci-fi future tech” than pressing a touch screen and wait 4 seconds for a change to happen… or not.