Somewhere to take more than five bags of coins?

[nigmenog]

I have a giant plastic bottle that I've been filling with small change for about five years. It is now full to bursting point. Thing is, both of the banks I'm with say they won't take more than five bags of coins a day. Gah!

I could go to one of the sorting machines at Sainsbury's to get credit, but does anybody know where I can desposit a huge number of coin bags in one go (without opening another bank account)?

[london hippo]

u can go to local supermarkets suchs as tesco or asda where there is a machine by the entrance or checkouts n get it sorted but they do take a fee- u can gt them sorted thre n bank the cash in.

or alternatively u can make several trips to different banks n get them changed.

[doglady]

I use the sorting machine at Sainsbury's. You get a voucher to take to the checkout, and they'll give you the cash. I know they charge a small fee for doing it, but at the end of the day, you aren't going to spend the money with it sitting in a bottle, are you.

[Electrochem]

I have the same problem.

What has happened to good customer service these days?

I make a point of going to the bank with 10 or 15 bags and paying 5 in then returning to the back of the queue!

I save �2 coins, 50p coins and 20p coins. By the end of the year they amount to a tidy sum.

[ThomasT]

I hate banks. Im a taxi driver so more often than not the money I pay into my bank is part notes but quite alot of coins. Im in the bank every day to pay money in and every day its "you really only should be paying in x amount of bags a day..." so one day i flipped and said "fair enough, but tomorrow when my 2 d debits are due and there isnt enough funds to cover them I dont expect you to charge me for it.." They soon shut up.

[kazza12345]

does the post office do it?

[dzug]

Not sure if the PO do it officially or not - certainly they have special arrangements with some large businesses both to receive and give out coin, but I think that is on a charging basis.
In practice my local one does, but I think that's more a favour than a formal duty.

[spudqueen]

When I worked for a bank, a few years ago now, customer service was drilled into us. Now if someone had come in with all the money from a giant plastic bottle but had not sorted it into bags we would not have accepted it as a) it would have taken a long time to count b) the customer could not have known how much money was there therefore the cashier would have been leaving themselves open to accusations of stealing some. However if all the money was bagged we would happily have accepted it. I can't believe how much banks have changed, not does customer service seem to have gone out of the window but it now takes longer to clear a cheque than it did 20 years ago!

[Solarjunkie]

If you are going to have the hassle of changing just a few bags at a time, it might as well do somebody some good - many small corner shops have to pay to get change and they are usually delighted to have a couple of bags in exchange for notes.
My local chippie appreciates getting some change too.