Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:

> It's closer to 9% for cash. Yeah, highway robbery! I don't remember a
> fee (or not as much of one) in the coin machine that was in my old grocery
> in downtown SF.
>
> ISTR that my bank wasn't very helpful. They wanted me to roll the coins
> first. So that's why I had a lot of change around.
>
> The gift card thing has worked out pretty well for me. I am sure that
> Chris will report in about the cookbooks her change buys .
>
> Charlotte

When my MIL fell ill in PA, we hired a private air ambulance to fly her
and my husband back down here for care. My husband was rushed, grabbing
her valuables not knowing when she'd ever return to PA (she passed 2
weeks after arrival here). He was grabbing her hospital records, wallet,
bank statements, etc. and grabbed a huge bag of coins and tossed them
into her travel bag to carry on this small fixed wing ambulance flight
where the passengers, crew and equipment weight all had to be accounted
for. I swear it weighed as much as another small passenger! We tossed it
into a coin machine at it was almost $500 in coins! LOL.... I bet the
crew wondered what in the hell was in *that* carry on?!
Our credit union keeps a coin machine in the lobby for the use by
members free of charge. It prints out a receipt which you take to a
teller for either cash or as a deposit into your account.