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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigsWick, post: 83329, member: 3534&quot;]chicken_little,</p><p><br /></p><p>First you have to consider the situation: How many halves do you get from this bank per week? Do they charge you to order boxes? Are you getting halves from a different bank and returning them to this bank? If not, I&#039;d ask to speak with a manager.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes tellers get a little bent when asked to do something they really don&#039;t want to have to put forth a little extra effort to do. This will cause them to overstep their authority and sometimes say something that isn&#039;t true. No, not all of them are that way, but I ran into a similar situation at the bank where my family has done business for nearly 30 years. Ever gotten rolled eyes and the, &quot;Well, I&#039;ll have to go to the vault&quot; spiel when you ask for halves? Kind of the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be cool about it, and explain to the manager that you are a coin collector. Tell him/her you are putting a set of halves together. You&#039;d be surprised how that can shift the conversation in your favor. If asked what you are looking for say you are trying to get one Kennedy of every year and mintmark. I&#039;d leave out the searching for silver aspect of what you are doing because that often raises eyebrows. Ask the manager what their policy is on charging their customers to return coins. If you are told that you are going through too many halves, ask him/her what number would be comfortable for them without their being a charge involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>This approach has worked for me many times. I&#039;ve yet to encounter a bank branch that refuses to take my returns or insists on their being a charge involved with the transaction. But, if I were you, and they refused to work with me on this, I would indeed close my account.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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