If Bank Messed Up On Currency Exchange- Am I Liable?

Thanks, guys. I appreciate all the good advice. I guess I knew what I should do...just looking for confirmation. Words like honesty and integrity come to mind. The hard part is that I have already spent the money in my mind (on bills). I will contact the bank today. By the way, it was a small Chase Bank in Ruston, LA. I live in Texas and was on my way back home from seeing relatives in Mississippi. I have a niece who works in a bank and would not want her getting fired for such a thing. And I think God would frown on my trying to keep the money. I will let you guys know how it turns out.

Good going, Biscuit. You came to the right conclusion.

FYI, the bank called me today and they do want their money back. I had gotten $6203 for the pesos and a small amount of Spanish pesatas. I need to repay something like $6170. She said I could just deposit the money in my account here in Texas and then call her, and they would deduct the $$ from my account. She acted like it was no big deal. We apologized to each other for the inconvenience and I guess that's the end of it. I have already gotten about $150 for some of the other contents in the box, plus I have a lot left. So I still came out ahead. I have learned a lot about foreign $$. Now I know the difference between old pesos and new pesos...hehe.

I really admire what you did -- bringing a $6000 mistake to the bank's attention when they didn't have a clue. It is tough to do the right thing. You showed a lot of class, biscuit. You rock, dude!

Mostly run by computers. Little training of new hires. Anyone having experience and good judgement was deemed too expensive and laid off long ago. Big turnover, nobody stays very long. Anyone making a mistake will not want to own up to it. I think is why it took so long.

I'm honestly not sure if it was integrity or that I was afraid of the consequences I might encounter down the road. If I had a 100% guarantee that I would not get caught, what would I do? I can't say for certain. I would like to say that I would still return it. I read someone's definition of integrity once and it was something like ... doing the right thing even when nobody else is around. And I think there will be a day when we will be judged for our words and actions. I was really wanting a tractor or nice riding mower to cut the grass/weeds on my 4 acre tract. But I will keep cutting a little at a time till I get it all cut. It was good to see all the responses on here who said to give it back. Guess there are still some good folks left in the world. Take care.

And sell the corn to buy a tractor or riding mower

What no reward!

They could have given you one of there pens at least....lol