Today as I'm picking up $55 in pennies and a few hundred in dimes and quarters I get to talking with the vault manager about coin racks. Seems they are only using the single layer plastic trays now. Something about new audit procedures so that the auditor can see there is no open space in the trays. They were told to get rid of all their aluminum trays and all those wonderful portacounts that hold $25 in pennies, $100 in nickels, $200 in dimes and $300 in quarters. He said they threw them all in the trash 2 weeks ago. He would have just given them to me, but I didn't stop by that week and his branch manager wanted them gone.
It may not be too late for some of you. Be sure to tell your branches.. especially Chase bank branches.. that you would be more than happy to recycle any coin trays they would like to throw out. Sometimes you can get a stack of canvas bank bags this way also.. when they decide they are only going to use the plastic coin shipment bags.
I almost got a teller coin return this way when they did some remodeling at one of my Wells Fargo branches.
