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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 246917, member: 4552&quot;]Amazing that once someone has posted a question in one place they still go to many other places and ask the same question. I read some of the ebay ones and some of the ones here. I would like to remind people that banks are separate companies or organizations and can and do make up thier own rules and regulations as long as they don&#039;t conflict with the federal laws if that institution is backed by federal laws. Some may hand you a set of their rules and some may not even have any. I live in the Chicago area. I have 5 safe deposit boxes in 5 different banks. I have never been handed a set of written rules when opening one or paying my annual fee for one. I have never been told&nbsp; what I can and can not put in one. No one is allowed to tape, video, etc on what goes on in the rooms where you go with your box to add or remove stuff. If anyone is afraid of any government takeover of such boxes, that is nuts if you just do the simple thing of having a relative&#039;s name added on to your box&#039;s records. If you don&#039;t trust them, just leave a note with an atorney to tell them about it after your gone and leave a note where the key is hidden. With me it&#039;s my son naturally. If something happens to me he just goes there and takes whatever he wants or just continues keeping it but now he has to pay the annual fee. </p><p>Speaking of safe deposit box rules. Not to many years ago I used to go to Wisconsin for certain reasons. I realized that there I may need some additional cash and many cash stations charge extra or will not accept an Illinois bank check. So I went to a small town bank to open an account and rent a safe deposit box for certain items I did not want to take accross the state border. It was easy to open an account and get a box. What shocked me was there was no account number. I asked why and was told that due to the amount of customers, a first and last name is good enough. Putting my son on the same accounts was also easy since his name is the same as mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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