On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

> hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
>> Is it not possible to take the money to bank, particularly where one 
>> might have an account, rather than to go through one of those counting 
>> machines?
>
> Banks vary quite a bit on this. When I first got a current account in 
> 1992 one of the considerations was the ability to pay in loose coins. 
> Even then some banks wouldn't take them out of hours. Now even my bank 
> is switching its payin machines from "deposit an envelope" to "feed in 
> the notes and cheques" with no cash option.
>
> What the heck are people meant to do with their loose change?

Buy sweets.

I used to accumulate coppers, and then have to deal with paying them in. 
Then i realised i could just accumulate them in my pocket up to the sum of 
10p, then use them to replace a 10p coin in my next transaction. These 
days, i rarely own more than a few coppers.

tom

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