LJ
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Today I had some personal business to tend to at my old dump bank. Before I start my story, one of the tellers I dealt with often greeted me and pulled out an envelope that contained some silver dimes and wheat's. This is something she has done for me 3-4 times already....once even mailing them to my house.....great teller!!!! She always saves what she finds for me. She once told me the first Merc she found she thought was a foreign coin until she studied it more...lol. She is a very sweet girl.
Anyway, she told me yesterday she noticed an elderly lady dumping coins in the coin counter. What caught her attention was how loud the noise was so she walked over there and she was dumping halves...bigger coins make louder noise obviously. She said she instantly thought about me when she saw the halves. This elderly lady had two buckets she was dumping.
When the lady took her ticket to the teller to get her cash the teller noticed all denominations...pennies, dimes, nickels and halves on the counter ticket. She asked the lady where she got all of these coins and the lady told the teller her husband had passed away and she found these two buckets in his closet. She didn't even know he had these.
I asked this teller if I could look into the coin bin to see what it was she dumped. She said no problem and her and the manager opened the counter for me and realized the coin bin was swapped out and picked up earlier that morning to be sent to their main bank. All of these coins will be rerolled and distributed to the branches in need of a specific denomination with the exception being the halves. This is one way this particular bank saves money....not having to buy coins from the Fed.
They do not use the halves so they will be shipped back to the Fed. The halves will end up in a box in my area soon. I inquired with this bank manager last year about buying these bins but she told me due to accounting issues the upper bank management would not allow it....oh well, I tried.
This bank manager said she would have let me take what I wanted from this bin if I replaced it with the exact quantity of the denominations I took. Ahhhh...about 5 hours too late!!! Darn!!!
Anyway, this is one example of how the goodies that are pulled from boxes gets into the system although it is sad that this lady lost her husband, but it is fact that this sometimes happens and CRH'ers benefit from it.
Anyway, she told me yesterday she noticed an elderly lady dumping coins in the coin counter. What caught her attention was how loud the noise was so she walked over there and she was dumping halves...bigger coins make louder noise obviously. She said she instantly thought about me when she saw the halves. This elderly lady had two buckets she was dumping.
When the lady took her ticket to the teller to get her cash the teller noticed all denominations...pennies, dimes, nickels and halves on the counter ticket. She asked the lady where she got all of these coins and the lady told the teller her husband had passed away and she found these two buckets in his closet. She didn't even know he had these.
I asked this teller if I could look into the coin bin to see what it was she dumped. She said no problem and her and the manager opened the counter for me and realized the coin bin was swapped out and picked up earlier that morning to be sent to their main bank. All of these coins will be rerolled and distributed to the branches in need of a specific denomination with the exception being the halves. This is one way this particular bank saves money....not having to buy coins from the Fed.
They do not use the halves so they will be shipped back to the Fed. The halves will end up in a box in my area soon. I inquired with this bank manager last year about buying these bins but she told me due to accounting issues the upper bank management would not allow it....oh well, I tried.
This bank manager said she would have let me take what I wanted from this bin if I replaced it with the exact quantity of the denominations I took. Ahhhh...about 5 hours too late!!! Darn!!!
Anyway, this is one example of how the goodies that are pulled from boxes gets into the system although it is sad that this lady lost her husband, but it is fact that this sometimes happens and CRH'ers benefit from it.
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