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Why is it that you cannot (practically) send money between two people in the US using just bank account number and routing number for free? Can't even do it if the accounts are in the same banking institution.

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You can, though it requires you to make a zelle account and for both banks to participate.

Yeah that's not account number and routing number, like practically the rest of the world. And then Zelle has its own limits.

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