Alot of times when you get your money in giftcard form, they wave the fee that they do for giving cash, to incentivize using their partner services, not sure if thats the case here.

timechain

Oh, ... that works!  Cool!!! (other than paying fees twice, ... once to convert coins to cash, then when redeeming the USD voucher on CoinMe.)

cointastical

bitcoin

Sats are so cheap, so I went to a CoinStar machine.

fiatbad

Yea, it was my first time doing it, so I had to learn.  

I had to get a voucher for the coins first and take it to a cashier to exchange for those gross greenbacks.

Then I went back to the same machine to buy Bitcoin with the bills.  Kinda annoying, but not too bad.