How Many Banks Do You Do Use For CRH. I Am Using 4 Right Now

I use one bank (2 branches). Sometimes I will visit a second. The only other bank in town acts like I have green skin and trying to steal their identity (literally). I expect that wen out of town but not at home.

I do want to share a really good experience at an out of town bank. I asked the teller if I could get a box of pennies. I explained I was from out of town. She called someone in an office. The lady came out and stated they had not yet received their shipment and were out of boxes. she asked me to wait while she made a phone call. She came out a few minutes later and told me the man at the local hometown food store could give me one of his.
That is how a bank should act.

Yes, I have accounts at the banks I use when traveling. I tend to use the bigger bank chains for my orders when traveling.

If I call an out-of-state bank and they refuse to order for me, then I simply contact a different branch until I find one that will order. Most branches are friendly about ordering, though they may look at me like I am an alien when I actually pickup the multiple boxes I've ordered

What types of coins are you ordering?
Do you tell them why you want them?
How many boxes do you typically get?

Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to learn my box strategy!
Briton

Thanks again for the conversation. I am going to Orlando next month and think I'm going to try to order some for my son before we go.

I am thinking I'll try Wells Fargo, as that's the only national bank I have an account with. Do you typically just look the bank branch phone number up on the internet and call? Do you just talk to whoever picks up the phone? Or ask for a manager?

Thanks again.

Found it hard to get banks to order halves for me, & even when I did......didn't have much luck. I much rather just grab customer wrapped rolls. I'd even find an occasional 40% edge searching obvious dumps (marked rolls). At the height of my searching I only had 2 accounts with 2 different banks. The success you have obviously has to with individual banks & how you go about establishing a relationship.

I first started off by asking tellers for halves. Any & all banks. Almost all banks want to get rid of them so they don't have to (1) sit on a $1000.00 bag waiting to get filled (at least around here) & (2) pay to ship said $1000.00 bag back. (Banks have to pay to get coin & ship coin back). I only found 1 branch of a bank that flat out refused a non customer halves in the 3 counties I would frequent often. After They got used to seeing me, I started asking for a few rolls of nickels as well as halves.
Eventually I was getting boxes of nickels from several banks I didn't have an account with.

I had one dump bank that had a coin counter that was free for it's customers. They were emptying it every other day because it was full (of nickels). They soon took the counter out. Had to start rolling. Some how or another, it evolved into me swapping out my boxes of nickels for fresh boxes at several banks (even banks that I had no accounts with). When my bank wanted to start charging its customers $10 a month, I went to a branch that didn't know me & closed my account....allowing me to continue getting nickels there. I opened up an account with the friendliest bank around (again at a branch that didn't know me). I had been swapping boxes of nickels there for about 2 years before becoming a customer. Two branches would even call me if they were running short on nickels.

I call the branch or branches ahead of time and discuss my desire to deposit an unusually large amount of halves. During the discussion I ask whether or not they have a counter. If they don't then I ask about depositing bags. If not bags, then rerolled. I try to minimize my impact on their business.

Honesty is the best policy.

I walked into a bank I have never been in. the teller asked "How may I help you".
I started with "I don't have an account with you..."
I walked out with $44.50 in pennies.