Tarsnap: Our costs just went down, so we're lowering our pricing for customers too!
Comcast: Our costs just went down. Effective immediately, we are adding a new cash management fee to your bill to cover our costs of handling all this new cash.
Comcast: Our costs just went down. Effective immediately, we are adding a new cash management fee to your bill to cover our costs of handling all this new cash.
Below scale, cash management is thrown in just to get people's business, but at scale, it costs what it costs. Walmart, which has substantially more problems than you on that score, reportedly spends millions of dollars every year just dealing with pennies.
I can't think of TOO many more first world problems than that, to be honest...
Of course, if I ever deposited cash I would be on a different banking plan; but it's not entirely unheard-of.