Paying coins in

strawb_shortcake

I know this comes up a lot and after building up quite a substantial amount of coins at home it's time to pay it in. 

I had thought it was going to take me 6 trips to the bank with a 10 bag limit, however after asking at our local friendly post office they will allow me to pay in over £500 in one go. They did advise a time and day to go in when it's quiet. 

May not help everyone but hopefully it will help someone. 

I also know it's not MSE to save money at home but it's been a bit of fun watching it build up and guessing how much would be in there when we got to the top.

sammyjammy

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

strawb_shortcake

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

Thank you, We do have an account with metro that have a coin counter, but parking would mean carrying 13kg of coins across the centre of Bristol. We seem to live in an area where lots of our banking facilities are closing down

strawb_shortcake

IanManc said:

annabanana82 said:

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

Thank you, We do have an account with metro that have a coin counter, but parking would mean carrying 13kg of coins across the centre of Bristol. We seem to live in an area where lots of our banking facilities are closing down

The "bit of fun watching it build up" hardly seems worth the consequent banking problem it causes. 

Banking wasn't such an issue 10 years ago when we started it. Also it's now a 5 minute drive to our local post office so not so much of an issue for me

It has also kept my children entertained for hours over the years counting it on a wet afternoon 

torchie

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

We opened an account at Metro just for the purpose of depositing coins - its verytconvenient to be to just tip them into the hopper and the machine does all the counting.

vikkiew

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

I have yet to see this and I have visited several HSBC branches in the South and London. Perhaps I have missed it and should ask but it's difficult to get staff who are always busy helping some confused customer.

Vortigern

vikkiew said:

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

I have yet to see this and I have visited several HSBC branches in the South and London. Perhaps I have missed it and should ask but it's difficult to get staff who are always busy helping some confused customer.

You can search on HSBC's website for branches with coin counters. The nearest to Leeds is in Sheffield, so not so common as they'd have us believe.

username

It's quite hard these days to locate them as some branches that used to have them, have had a makeover and so have had it removed. I do know the HSBC in Oxford Street does have a coin counter machine as I have used it.
You do need to be an HSBC client and have one of their accounts to deposit it into.

Rich1976

our city centre branch of HSBC used to have a coin machine but they removed it a few years back due to ‘lack of use’ which I guess was probably true as on the very few occasions I needed to use it, there was never a queue.

Cloth_of_Gold

vikkiew said:

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

I have yet to see this and I have visited several HSBC branches in the South and London. Perhaps I have missed it and should ask but it's difficult to get staff who are always busy helping some confused customer.

The NatWest near me has one.

TheBanker

Cloth_of_Gold said:

vikkiew said:

sammyjammy said:

For future reference some banks have coin deposit machines in branch (HSBC for sure), no counting or bagging required, deposits straight into account.

I have yet to see this and I have visited several HSBC branches in the South and London. Perhaps I have missed it and should ask but it's difficult to get staff who are always busy helping some confused customer.

The NatWest near me has one.

The city centre Natwest near me used to have one, but they moved into a new (smaller) branch and didn't take the coin counting machine with them. 

I hardly use cash these days, so don't really have this problem. But my local pub is happy to change bags of £2/£1 and silver coins. Saves them having to pay their bank to provide change. Maybe they only do this for regular customers as they seem to take it on trust that the bags are correct. They don't want 1p or 2p coins though, perhaps because allthe prices are rounded to x0p or x5p. 

When I get odd coins, I just shove them in the self-service till at the supermarket (providing it accepts coins, of course - a lot of them have been changed to card only these days).

Even charity collection tins on shop counters for you to drop your loose change into seem to be a thing of the past these days.