Originally Posted by
deant
In a way, I am glad to see it becoming more and more difficult to do large amounts of dollar deposits. As a taxpayer, I don't like the mint spending millions of dollars on UPS overnight just for people to deposit the coins in a bank and have the bank send the coins back to the fed. Also, with all the bailout money that has gone to the banks I hate to see them spending a lot of money to send coins back to the fed.
The real losers in this game is the American public.
All the government costs for this add up to a small portion of one day's bill for our soiree in Iraq.