I've not handled notes and coins for over a decade now, partly as our au pair does most of our shopping in the ghastly Tesco!
No thank-you!
Or when I'm popping out to Waitrose for some Chardonnay, Moet or DH's lager beer, it's contactless all the way in this household!
Who knows whose been touching the bills? Some of them may not even have gone to a good school!
Though since we're on the subject why not broaden the appeal in the use of cash by having some more contemporary figures beyond HRHs on the bills. Perhaps notes in the North could feature figures like the Ge-or-dies Dec and Ant (they're from Newcastle - can you believe that!), chubby TV funster Peter Kay, or for the Welsh Huw Edwards - such a beautiful speaking voice; A portrait of First Minister/Janette Krankie impersonator Nicola Sturgeon, The Proclaimer brothers or John Knox would pacify most angry Scots, as much as tablet , Irn-Bru and sectarinism!
Perhaps for Southern metro-centric cash shoppers in Poundland, or beggers, why not delightful cake-mistress Mary Berry (some say she's the face of a shrivelled apricot, but that never stopped Princess Margaret from capturing hearts), Sir David Attenburgh (obviously), or gardening hunk Alan Titchmarsh (one for the ladies).
For Post Boxes, why not a wipe free, laminated, aluminium plate that could be replaced once a month with a prominent local: lollypop ladies, freemasons, Conservative MPs, etc. If local neer-do-wells despoil the signage with soilage, it's wipe free and could for the basis of an extra job for refuse collectors/window cleaners and recipients of ASBOs.
Perhaps local council officials as long as they are C of E, privately schooled and intact.
AIBU?
:) God save the King!