# Is it possible to live in the US without a bank account?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-live-in-the-us-without-a-bank-account/992545 "2023-11-03T19:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-live-in-the-us-without-a-bank-account/992545/95 "2023-11-05T00:40:40Z")

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I really had to dive for this thread, and remembered the incident but didn’t realize it was this long ago. Anyway, I was at the post office, and an elderly man came in to buy money orders and started pulling large bundles of cash out of his overalls, and they had to call the postmaster. I didn’t stick around to find out what was up.

> [@Bizarre thing I saw at the post office today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-thing-i-saw-at-the-post-office-today/754116):
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> As I was finishing up my own business, an elderly man who used a walker came in and, as I was leaving, started pulling out big bundles of what were probably $100 bills and said he wanted to buy some money orders. The clerks all seemed to be very familiar with this man, and said that the amount he had warranted a call to the Postal Inspector. confused Could that possibly be what I think it may have been, which is someone being taken advantage of by a scammer, quite likely foreign? If that’s…

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