General Chat

All I wanted to do was pay some cheques and loads of saved up coins into my bank account, it took longer to pay the coins (real money) all bagged up in correct amounts in than the cheques.
It wasn't even vast amount of cash either :-|

I know it's mad ness after all it's legal money my building soc will take five bags if it's all the same I/I pound coins. what we surpposd to do walk around with pockets full of change .I take mine to one of those change machine but you get charged a little bit but I can get rid .

there are change accepting machines at some Sainsbury's stores but they charge you for the privilege,

I live in a small village, at the local shop/post office they are always willing to take/change into notes. I have also found that many small outlets are the same, as most people tend to offer notes in payment, leaving them short on change.

MY DAUGHTER SAVES 1&2 POUND COINS
EVERY NIGHT SHE PUTS THEM IN THE SAVINGS
BOTTLE,
BUT IF SHES GOING SHOPPING NEXT DAY SHE HAS TO GO TO BANK TO
GET CASH FROM ATM...........
,,,,,LOGIC !!!!

When you take you bags of money into the bank/post office. They have to be weighed and then if they come up short or over then they have to be counted manually by the clerk.

And now that more and more people pay by debit or credit card, most banks do not need the change and it costs them to handle these amounts to send them back to a central cash point for re-distribution.

I save all my small change, but if I know I am going to need change when out I will ensure that I have a couple of pounds of small change to pass on.

Your small local shops are the ones who will really want the small change, so instead of saving it, use it locally to make smaller purchases.

1 - 2 & 5p are the coins that the banks really do not need to take in.

Our local paper runs a collection called the Jam Jar Army, supporting a different local good cause each year, for which we all are asked to put our smallest change into jam-jars - many of the local shops also join in and keep a jar on the counter - it makes about !£10,000 each year, which has of course been welcomed by such causes as the local hospice, the youth club attached to the local theatre, rescue dogs - and this year for emergency heart machines at the local sports clubs. If any of you can get something similar going it is a very worthwhile system of parting with our coppers.