plastic coin bags

[Jim Hawkins]

Where can you get those plastic bags that the banks use for the various coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p & 50p) ? Will the banks give non-commercial customers a supply of them ?

Jim Hawkins

[Adrian]

Yep. Just go in and ask nicely.

If you've been collecting coppers up, they want 'em bagged to cash in anyway.

[soup]

Our bank ( Bank of Scotland, Currie) has them just lying out (well in a display thing but...) and you just help yourself.

[Andy Burns]

Yep, but if you ask for lots they might dread you bringing them back all at once, at peak time ...

Nah, find a branch with a coin counter (like the coinstar ones in supermarkets but without the 10% deduction).

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:

8.9%.

I dump coppers and 5ps in Coinstar, my local HSBC branch are happy to take the rest if I bag 'em up correctly (and they'll give out the bags on request).

[Adrian C]

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In message , Jim Hawkins writes

Ask your local friendly sub postmaster - and support his office :-)

I have just retired as a sub postmaster, and kept most of the village supplied with coin bags, which I obtained, without charge, from Post Office Ltd.

Just don't take 'em back to the PO, full of pennies, and expect him to smile whilst counting them.

[Dennis Davis]

My bank (Barclays) just gives me a handful if I ask nicely. The local branches weigh the bagged-up coins to check they contain the correct amount. Even so, I don't take too many in at once.

The last time I did this, I vaguely remember they wanted the money paid into my account rather than exchanged for a fistful of fivers. Possibly under some nosy government guidelines to make it easy to track what I spend on Internet cryptography, drugs, arms, drink and loose women...not necessarily in that order...

[Dennis Davis]

Useful to know but might not be that useful. Depends on where you live.

There's no bank with a coin counter within 5 miles of where I live. I can go 15 miles and find a branch of HSBC with a coin counter...I don't bank with HSBC...

[spuorgelgoog]

It's a better combination than internet women and loose cryptography

More likely, if they process it as a customer deposit it counts as a transaction under their daily workload targets; if they just swap the money it takes them time which their manager will wonder what they've spent doing.

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

My local Tesco self-scan tills require coins to be fed in individually, but IIRC Morrisons (or Asda?) tills have a small hopper you can pour the money into.

Owain

[Mike Barnes]

As my bank (First Direct) has no branches AFAIK, not very useful. But interesting.

[Brian Gaff]

Give, certainly not, but mine will sell you some. I'm sure you can get them from other sources though. Brian

[Martin Brown]

Yes. Just ask them for some and they will give you a handful.

They take a dim view of you turning up with a large bag of mixed change.

[Adrian]

It has hundreds. They say "HSBC" on the front.

[Weatherlawyer]

are like ursury aren't they. Why do people give money away like that and why is such ursury permitted?

[Scion]

Weatherlawyer put finger to keyboard:

I give away money like that, gladly. I don't mind paying for the service because I no longer have to count up and bag up hundreds of 1p, 2p, 5p and

10p coins.

Anything larger gets used as normal, or bagged up and taken to the bank.

I did boggle at the lady in front of me who tipped in £160 worth of mixed coins, with £1 coins being the most common (she showed me the receipt).

[Martin Brown]

Usury is charging excessive interest on a loan like the delightful Wonga and its ilk. This is just normal ripoff Britain overcharging.

If you have to do it regularly then make or buy a simple coin sorter. (by size and thickness) it orders them 5p, 1p, £1, 10p, 20p, 2p, 50p, £2

I can't see why anyone would ever do this. It takes only a few minutes to sort even large amounts of loose change. I did exactly this job for our village hall yesterday with the takings from our Halloween Quiz.

[Adrian]

Indolence, with a slight side-order of "haven't bothered reading the small print", mainly.

[Mike Barnes]

I know that HSBC and First Direct are under the same ownership, but I'm not sure that First Direct customers' accounts are serviced at HSBC branches.

I will try bunging some coins in a machine next time I'm near a suitable branch, but with more optimism than confidence.