Interesting flight.

"nobody" <nobody@nobody.org> wrote in message
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> Mike wrote:
>> I am pretty sure cash is never transported in this way.
>
> And why not ?
>
> When new coins/paper are issued, they need to be in a coordinated
> distribution to major centres so that thety can be released to "the
> public" nationwide at the same time. This is especially true for special
> coins that are distributed for a limited time.
>
> My experience was for an Ottawa-Calgary flight. Ottawa is home of the
> Canadian Mint where coins are made. (paper is done at Winnipeg). So
> Ottawa-Calgary makes sense.
>
> For the OP, it would depend on whether he was travelling from a US Mint
> location, or perhaps TO a US Mint location (to have old money destroyed).
Ya they are sent via armoured car or probably private airlines not
commercial airliners!
Describe your experience, how do you know it was money?

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Mike wrote:

> > For the OP, it would depend on whether he was travelling from a US Mint
> > location, or perhaps TO a US Mint location (to have old money destroyed).
> Ya they are sent via armoured car or probably private airlines not
> commercial airliners!
> Describe your experience, how do you know it was money?

I'm the OP. Actually, the contents of the boxes is totally unknown.
All wrapped in blue plastic with large bar code labels on them. By the
way the guards were loading them, I'd guess they were about 20lbs. or
so each. (About 50 of them.) Armoured truck was from Dunbar Security.
It just seems very odd to me, to ship something like that on a
commercial airliner.

Miss L. Toe wrote:
> "Jim Davis" <sky.dancer1m> wrote in message
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> >
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > > > For the OP, it would depend on whether he was travelling from a US
> Mint
> > > > location, or perhaps TO a US Mint location (to have old money
> destroyed).
> > > Ya they are sent via armoured car or probably private airlines not
> > > commercial airliners!
> > > Describe your experience, how do you know it was money?
> >
> > I'm the OP. Actually, the contents of the boxes is totally unknown.
> > All wrapped in blue plastic with large bar code labels on them.
>
> You didnt mention the bar code labels before !!
> Leaving out key information how are we supposed to tell you waht they were

Actually, I don't think we'll ever find out what they were.

> So, what size were the labels, and were the bar codes the same on each box
> or did each box have a different number ?

I was looking out the window of the plane. I couldn't read anythng on
the lables. I just saw bar codes. Labels were about post card size.
Print was too small from that far away.

> > By the
> > way the guards were loading them, I'd guess they were about 20lbs. or
> > so each. (About 50 of them.) Armoured truck was from Dunbar Security.
> > It just seems very odd to me, to ship something like that on a
> > commercial airliner.

TOliver wrote:

> "Mike" <gouigoui@> wrote in message
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>>"nobody" <nobody@nobody.org> wrote in message
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>>>Jim Davis wrote:
>>>
>>>>I looked out the window to see 2 police cars next to the plane. About
>>>>15 min. before boarding time, an armoured truck backed up to the
>>>>baggage hatch of the plane. The cops got out of the cars, and stood
>>>>there with holsters unsnapped, and hands on their guns. They never
>>>>moved from their spots.
>>>
>>>Most likely aircraft transporting new currency to various distribution
>>>points. (or old currency being sent to its destruction site). This
>>>requires lots of security to ensure no single employee can steam any of
>>>it.
>>>
>>>
>>>This is not common but not unusual either. I have seen this done in
>>>Canada too, although with perhaps less drama with regards to passenger
>>>boarding process.
>>
>>I am pretty sure cash is never transported in this way.
>>
>
> Having seen it was Cleveland, I retract my last. No telling what it
> was....who would want to ship to Cleveland?
>
>

It would make sense to ship cash to the Fed there. It is strange to
ship from Houston though.