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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 253761, member: 4552&quot;]If you have another name on the box, that person is still the legal owner of the box and can keep it, close it out, add or remove anything at will. If I die for instance, my son and his wife are listed as owners of that box. They maintain the ability to do with it as they please. If anyone thinks the State, Federal or local government goes around with an obituary column in thier pockets looking for safe deposit boxes where a person has died, your dreaming. Even if there is only one name on the box, nothing is usually done for a long, long time. Here in the Chicago area, once a year there is a listing in the Tribune Paper of unclaimed safe deposit boxes, savings accounts, checking accounts that is many, many pages long. I once found my name there because I had a savings account in a bank and had not visited it for about 30 years. Moved a few times since I opened it so they lost track of my address. That account sat there for 30 years and no state, local, federal people came to see why. They just don&#039;t care. If your wondering there was only $17 and some cents in the account. </p><p>I have 5 safe deposit boxes in 5 different banks. All have my son and his wife listed on the box account. If I should leave this Earth they would still be able to do with the boxes as they please. If you think the government is out there looking for a dead person&#039;s safe box, there is a better chance those people are to busy playing golf. </p><p>As to humidity in those places. I have mentioned this previously. Some time back people on forums for coins mentioned this. So as a curious old person I went to all my banks and asked about the humidity in the safe deposit areas. Luckily I was a customer or they would have thrown me out for being stupid. All banks have usually only ONE heating and A/C system. It is cost provocative to have a separate system for different parts of a bank structure. Adding or removing humidity to one separate location would be just plain nuts or so they kind of told me bluntly. Only two of the banks had the safe deposit boxes in the basement. Three were on the main floor. When I explained I was Chemical and Electrical Engineer, they just looked at me as if I needed to go back to school. One lady at one bank actually said I sure didn&#039;t learn about HVAC systems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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