Show HN: Experiences with Stripe in Small Hotels First of all our service is not prohibited by Stripe, we are a small hotel. We sell our rooms in booking and booking sends us a virtual credit card to be used to bill each customer for the room. We withdrew the funds from the virtual credit card in the stripe platform and after two months of using it, my Stripe account was closed. The stripe account manager told me that we had a higher than normal percentage of prepaid cards and that we may be suspected of money laundering. Stripe has now refunded all the funds in my account (automatically) February 22, 2023 at 03:15PM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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