On: The return of pneumatic tubes

[InitialLastName]

I can think of other reasons to use the tubes:

- At my bank, it lets them operate multiple lanes of drive-through without a teller directly at each lane.

- The failure case of handing valuable, loose slips of paper back and forth from a car window to a building is a whole lot worse than for a bag of fast food.

[jrochkind1 → InitialLastName]

There may be other reasons! But I should have been more clear, in this example it's not a drive-through, it's an inside lobby with human beings standing in a room! Instead of waiting in line to talk to a teller through a window, you wait in line to talk to a video screen with a phone handset and a pneumatic tube.

[justinhj → jrochkind1]

Seems a bit dystopian

[jrochkind1 → justinhj]

Agreed. But at least I get to play with pneumatic tubes.

Hey, come to think of it, dystopian pneumatic tube world is the movie Brazil https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/