Credit Union hand counted my change.

[coppernickel]

I had a nice bag of cents and took it to a little branch of the credit union I had visited before, near a family member I was visiting, and if they had a counter.

They told me "no, but we can hand count it for you." I agreed and came back an hour later. $45.96 was the total.

It got me thinking, were they really that board? Who are they trying to impress? Why . . ?

They looked rather frazzled, and don't plan to do that again, but with the time I filled out a "How's your service card and raved they are great."

[johnbrickner]

If the banks and CUs in my area don't have a counter they typically don't accept unrolled coinage unless it's less than a rolls worth. Same with the grocery stores.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Kodak moment for sure!

[tinhorn]

Haha! I had a similar experience. Had six unopened boxes I needed to turn into FRNs, so I took two boxes to each of three branches of my bank. First bank, I'm standing in line and a teller opens up her window--"Those look heavy; bring them here." Second bank, nothing out of the ordinary, teller takes my pennies and gives me a receipt. Third bank, teller rips open each UNSEALED box. Then COUNTS every roll! Hahahahahahaha!

[OdedPaz]

My credit union also asked me not to bring rolled coins, since they have to count them manually.

But the kick was that they now charge 3% to do it, so I said, very politely "no thanks"...