Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12397655)

I wonder how long it will take TD to go down the same :rolleyes: path with the coins as my other banks. Would a $15k+ opening deposit in coins please them? I think not!

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12397571)

Lots of :rolleyes: at the banks today. My two main branches told me they'd start assessing fees for large $1 coin deposits. It was good while it lasted.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12397687)

My $1500 took 20+ minutes. At that rate, you're looking at three hours. And I had someone standing there with me the whole time.

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 12397813)

Charging a fee to deposit legal tender?

This sounds illegal.

Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12397869)

Out of curiosity, in what form do the coins come? Bags or rolls. Either way, though, I suppose, they have to look at 'em, and there's not a front line bank employee who hasn't been trained to count and recount no matter what.

Originally Posted by xFF (Post 12397890)

If it hasn't been done already, and interesting "how things work" piece for the Discovery channel would be the coin operations of a big AC casino: how they count and process them, and how they bank them. You know they don't do it at a rate of $500 and hour!

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12397885)

They come rolled, in boxes of ten rolls.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12397893)

There are no coins anymore. Atlantic City went coinless in about 2003 or so.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12397906)

Time to victimize The Box with trivia. I've been proofing for my trivia event:

Business History:

1. According to lore, the founding of this company was the result of a paper written for an economics class at the Harvard Business School. The man who wrote the paper is still the company’s Chairman, President, and CEO. Name the company.

2. The Air Mail Act of 1934 banned the common ownership of airlines and aircraft manufacturers. William Boeing was forced to sell off components of his business under this law. Which major airline (now Chicago-based) was born of this corporate breakup?

3. What corporate merger (name both companies) was the subject of the book Barbarians at the Gate and the 1993 Emmy-winning TV movie of the same name?

4. This billionaire’s first venture was a computerized automotive traffic management and reporting system called Traf-O-Data when he was 17 years old, in 1972.

5. This 79-year-old billionaire filed his first Federal tax return in 1943, at the age of 13. The newspaper delivery boy deducted his watch and his bicycle as $35 worth of work-related expense.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12397906)

Time to victimize The Box with trivia. I've been proofing for my trivia event:

Business History:

1. According to lore, the founding of this company was the result of a paper written for an economics class at the Harvard Business School. The man who wrote the paper is still the company’s Chairman, President, and CEO. Name the company. Microsoft

2. The Air Mail Act of 1934 banned the common ownership of airlines and aircraft manufacturers. William Boeing was forced to sell off components of his business under this law. Which major airline (now Chicago-based) was born of this corporate breakup?

3. What corporate merger (name both companies) was the subject of the book Barbarians at the Gate and the 1993 Emmy-winning TV movie of the same name? RJ Reynolds, Nabisco, and Henry Kravis (KKR)

4. This billionaire’s first venture was a computerized automotive traffic management and reporting system called Traf-O-Data when he was 17 years old, in 1972.

5. This 79-year-old billionaire filed his first Federal tax return in 1943, at the age of 13. The newspaper delivery boy deducted his watch and his bicycle as $35 worth of work-related expense.