On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:43:47 AM UTC-7, Jay E. Morris wrote:   
   > On 4/7/2016 1:20 AM, Thomas Prufer wrote:   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > My credit union has that at all their branches.  I've dumped about $500   
   > worth of change at one time.   
   >   
   > >   
   > > 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...   
   >   
   > At mine it's free all the time for customers.  And fortunately it is   
   > mostly up and if not a credit union employee is usually able to fix it.   
   >   
   > >   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > Before the coin counter we use to have to roll coins and do the account   
   > number for our church deposit.  We'd get a lot of change.   
   >   
   > You can find the machines in some stores in US. IIRC there's like a 10%   
   > fee at those.   
      
   Fee varies from place to place, and is often waived if you take payment in   
   store credit.  The local one was, IMS, 7%.   
      
   ANMcC   
      
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