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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 542599, member: 4552"]As I mentioned almost all banks in my area have been purchased by either Bank of America or Chase. I have accounts in 5 banks. Unfortuately all, except one so far, have been purchased by Bank of America. The other is a, for now, independant. Only one has a coin counter and they said when it stops working, out it goes. Chase told me no safe deposit boxes unless you open an account with a certain minimum. I suppose I could search for banks that are more customer friendly, but would probabaly have to drive 500 miles to get there. One, and only one, of the reasons for some of these problems is the short rolls people are doing. They take a bunch of rolled coins to a bank assuming they will not be opened. They are each short one coin. Some customers ask for special coins. With a lack of tellers, one teller must lock up everything,  go to a vault, acquire the special request, back to thier station, reopen everything. Meanwhile a pile of customers in line are about to complain to the officers at desk about special request holding up everything. According to one bank tellers that put items aside usually come up short at the end of thier time so that too is being stopped. I suspect many of us are creating the problems banks are faced with. I don't like it but I see thier points.[/QUOTE]