wa-wildlife-agency-will-no-longer-accept cash

[Ridgeratt]

Well, it’s official. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced on Monday that it will stop accepting cash payments for license-product purchases, such as hunting and fishing licenses and transport tags, at its offices starting June 11.

Credit cards, debit cards and checks are now the only accepted forms of in-person payment.

The announcement comes on the heels of the U.S. Mint halting the production of pennies last November, and the Washington State Legislature passing House Bill 2334, which allows retailers and merchants to round up or down to the nearest 5 cents if they’re out of pennies.

“We estimated that it would cost the Department tens of thousands of dollars and half of our contracted annual vendor work hours to update our point-of-sale system to accommodate rounding the cost of transactions,” explained Jennine Griffo, WDFW licensing division manager, in a statement. “Ultimately, we decided to eliminate cash transactions for licensing product sales at WDFW offices so we could better use that funding and vendor capacity for system enhancements or future updates.”


Customers can continue to purchase WDFW products online and through WDFW’s applicable apps.

License dealers can accept cash payments if they so choose, as long as they’re consistent with the requirements of the new law.

May is a busy fishing month for anglers in Western Washington, with lingcod and halibut seasons in full swing, and summer fishing seasons for chinook and hatchery coho opening soon.

Wild turkey hunting is open until May 31.

[bigtex]

When was the last time you paid cash for a license???

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[Born2late]

I have paid in cash every time.

[hunter399]

I paid cash for mine this year,as well.

[Henrydog]

Ruling Class Coastal Elite Liberals hate cash because they cannot track it

[JBar]

For some smaller dealers the CC fees eat up the dealer fee the state ads on. My local store used to only take cash or check for licenses.

[Ridgeratt]

There are still folks who are cash players. My wife still uses her checkbook.

[fishngamereaper]

Who buys at an actual DFW office tho...
It's just a lame excuse by an already lame agency....but it shouldn't affect to many people.

[Elkaholic daWg]

Ruling Class Coastal Elite Liberals hate cash because they cannot track it

There it IS! Kinda like Sideshow bobs plan to employ Revenuers soon! As always they give you LESS for MORE!

[timberfaller]

 

Just like "ghost guns"!   It has always been about "control of the masses"!!

[Bob33]

Must be a thing. I saw this today in a doctor's office.

[JBG]

I have paid in cash every time.

But did you pay cash at a WDFW office to buy your license or did you go to your local sporting goods store and pay with cash there?

[Sitka_Blacktail]

My cash money still says right on it......  "This note is legal tender for ALL debts public and private"

[Bob33]

My cash money still says right on it......  "This note is legal tender for ALL debts public and private"

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

[HillHound]

Did I miss where they canceled all US currency? How do they not have the function to train their employees basic rounding. Or is that not a thing with the new age way to teach math? All the businesses seem to be doing just fine. Some of them in town have their cashiers rounding up or down and some have programming already in place to do it automatically. But yet a state run agency can’t figure it out???

[Bob33]

Might be that with the elevated prices they don't want too much cash on hand.

[EnglishSetter]

Just use your EBT.

[Humptulips]

The excuse that rounding because of lack of pennies is going to cost them money is such a BS excuse. The truth is they just don't want to be bothered taking care of customers by keeping some cash on hand. Pretty much aligns with, we can't print your tags because the paper costs too much.
They don't care about you and probably wish you would go away.

[EnglishSetter]

The excuse that rounding because of lack of pennies is going to cost them money is such a BS excuse. The truth is they just don't want to be bothered taking care of customers by keeping some cash on hand. Pretty much aligns with, we can't print your tags because the paper costs too much.
They don't care about you and probably wish you would go away.

They know.