Bank Says "Coin Fee" After Already Made 3 Trips Before !

I don't get it--people in line at a bank means job security for the tellers, right? If people weren't coming in getting what they want--means cut back in number of tellers. BANKS make money no matter what, so they shouldn't have attitudes when We ask for a favor. Also, OUR TIME IS VALUABLE! What if we start charging FEES for the time we have to wait in line. I know, I know--business is business, but the attitudes we could do without--how about making a big scene when they tell us we can't have those halves! (They'd probably call security)

Simple answer: call ahead. They'll get them together during slow moments and have them ready when you arrive.
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Yes that is the best way and the tellers will appreciate it. I dropped by a few branches yesterday asking for halves (no rolls and only 6 or so total loose) and then switched to pennies. I was able to get two $25 boxes but that's it. Call your branch and ask them to order what you need, and you should see it in a week or so...if you can wait that long.

A few years ago I went to Wells Fargo to get change for a $100 bill. They wouldn't change it because I didn't have an account.

"It's so we don't get stuck with counterfeits."

"But you're a bank. If you can't tell if it's counterfeit then how could I?"

"We'd have no way to find you after you leave."

"What would you do to the bill after I leave that you can't do now?"

(looking around and pointing out I'm the only customer there.)

".....Would you like to open an account?"

Always attempt to put yourself in the other persons shoes. For example if you worked in a bank as a teller. Your just sitting there minding your usual transactions and along comes someone wanting special services that require you to actually get up. Oh my feet, my back, etc. Sounds funny but many times I've gone to one of the banks I do buisness with with a bag full of coins. To avoid a charge I just say for deposit in my account. Then this usually frail girl has to attempt to haul that stuff to the coin counters in the back room. One teller had to call for assistance from some guy due to the weight.
Then there is those mazes of ropes to go through to get to the next teller. If everything worked smooth and fast those would not be required. All it takes is one person to hold up a teller's time and poof, you need those mazes of ropes for the people piling up. One more thing is just how do you all think a bank makes money giving you and receiving from you a pile of coins? They don't.
The main thing they attempt to do is get you to open an account there. So what is the problem. Open up accounts all over the area and a few other areas also.
Not meaning to back up banks with whatever they do to make money but as a person that stands in lines I always want to do something to the person holding up the entire line

99.8% of my experience in asking for halves has been easy. There was NO ONE else in the bank. And they couldn't wait to hand them over to me and said they'd been sitting there for YEARS ! (customer wrapped rolls) And NONE of their customers have ever wanted them......... THEY'RE HAPPY TO HAND THEM OVER TO GET RID OF THEM AND I'm HAPPY TO TAKE THEM !
Now, if they've had to "order" Fed Res. boxes.........and I come in there and ask to buy them.........yeah..... I see yer point. I'm not a member of their bank......why should they ? (even though they almost always did though) And the bank in question here "did" have Fed rolls ........so I take your point very well with a better light on it now. It just seem "un-natural" to me somehow though still !
But there's no more banks (i don't think) for me to search now, so I get to begin the "ordering process" from my main branch soon. I'm done with all that "silver-running" now anyway and i'll just be working with my banks. We have 3 in town and 3 in outlying areas.......good enough. There's nowhere I haven't checked for silver now !

interesting thoughts on looting the inventory of the local area...i'll see what shows up

I am the person doing the nickel project. I purchase two (sometimes more) boxes of nickels every day. I have an account at only one bank, and the best thing about that bank is that they have over 30 branches close by. Therefore, I really don't get to the point of annoying the people at any one branch by overloading them with nickels (and pennies and halves, which I also go through. As far as getting coins from branches where I don't have an account I guess that I am lucky; very few of the banks around here have asked if I have an account, and the ones that do I leave alone. There are still plenty of banks for me to go to!