Another Doper (Psycat90) was a Nielsen family about a year ago, and posted about it:
stolichnaya wrote:
I’ve always been told it’s just a dumb idea to do so. Mail gets stolen all the time. If you send money by check, money order, or any other method than cash, there’s at least a chance that the people who try to cash the checks will be tracable. With cash, your only chance is to bust 'em when they steal the mail.
ArchiveGuy wrote:
I just examined my five bills. Nothing sequential about them. They’re not even new, but they appear to have been ironed (or perhaps they were just pressed in the diary for a long time, awaiting shipment).
On a side note, the movie Open Season ( http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114047 ) came to mind just now.