From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 19:30:53 -0000 (UTC), Moe Trin   
    wrote:   
      
   >For a phone company, they were an expense to maintain.   The cost of   
   >collecting the coins (armored car service, etc), and auditing would   
   >out-weigh any profit now.   The idea of abandoning the phones/kiosks   
   >would not set well with the property/building owner, I'm sure   
      
   Literally out-weigh... coins are heavy.   
      
   Banks dislike processing lots of coins. Here (Germany), for a customer account,   
   I know of one bank in a heavily banked urban ares that has a coin machine. Toss   
   in coins, up to about half a shoebox volume, and it counts, checks and sorts,   
   and prints a deposit slip, and the money is credited to an account.   
      
   For a regular private customer, the service is free once a month, and about $2   
   US a pop after that. The machine is frequently out of order, by ATM standards;   
   the "rejected" bin sometimes contains interesting coins that folk have not   
   bothered to take...   
      
   The other banks want the money bagged and handed in, to be processed off-site   
   within a week or three. Or sorted, counted, rolled, and in one particularly   
   obnoxious case, marked with an account number and signed, alls by the customer.   
   Ostensibly "acct. number & signed" was "just in case it comes up short"... they   
   had scales to check, but never used them.   
      
      
   Thomas Prufer   
      
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