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To: Rande Is who wrote (55188)	10/10/2001 11:01:58 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, the last time I bought an I-bond, which was several months ago, when the going rate was 6 percent, the teller at the bank had obviously been trained to steer customers who had any block of cash in their accounts at all to a "financial advisor" of the bank. Of course, these folks want to steer you into annuities, stocks, etc. The teller looked at my federal government I-bond form, looked at the balance in my account, and asked, rather disdainfully, whether I "normally invest that much money in bonds". I replied that no, I didn't normally invest in bonds at all...but please kindly put thru my bond purchase to the Treasury Department. That was the end of the conversation. <gg>