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Taf · 13-03-2018, 20:49

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-SCRAPPED.html

I think the main reason that people fill jars with them is that many places won't accept more than 20 of them per purchase. Plus banks will only accept 3 or 4 bags of them for deposit, per day. And those Coinstar machines that have appeared in supermarkets take a 9.9% cut.

In the Netherlands in the late 70's we could drop our loose change into a machine that sorted them and packaged them into neat paper tubes. The banks accepted as many of these as you offered. Maybe UK banks should offer the same service?

13-03-2018, 20:49	#1
Taf cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Kairdiff-by-the-sea Age: 69 Services: TVXL BBXL Superhub 2ac (wired) 1Tb Tivo Posts: 10,192	Backlash as Treasury suggests 1p and 2p coins could be SCRAPPED http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-SCRAPPED.html I think the main reason that people fill jars with them is that many places won't accept more than 20 of them per purchase. Plus banks will only accept 3 or 4 bags of them for deposit, per day. And those Coinstar machines that have appeared in supermarkets take a 9.9% cut. In the Netherlands in the late 70's we could drop our loose change into a machine that sorted them and packaged them into neat paper tubes. The banks accepted as many of these as you offered. Maybe UK banks should offer the same service?