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>>>>>>If you go to a friend's birthday party or some graduation event or something where you need to give a gift of money, how do you do it? give them cash?
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>>>>>Fairly simple : verse it into their account. (internet banking you see)
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>>>>What do you mean "verse"? You mean "wire"? Do you ask someone for their account # before going to their party?
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>>>Sorry french influence , i meant 'transfer'.Accounts are always mentioned on invitation cards, bis. cards etc...
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>>The custom of writing account numbers on invitation cards has not yet come to America. And knowing how sensitive people are to other people's privacy I don't think we will see it in a near future.
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>What has an account number to do with privacy one wonders ....
A person's account number is his/her private information. Another "hole" I see with writing the account number on the invitation is that it would be like "telling" the invited guest that you want money as a gift. Or that you want something. It would seem (IMO) to most Americans as "improper" (for the lack of a better word that I can think of).
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