Posted 05/13/2023 4:23 pm
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It's not typical but I can see it happening after the pack left the BEP. The BEP label uses adhesive similar to what's used on a Post-It note, so it can be reused after removing. Someone prior to you must have intermingled two new packs. I'm guessing here.
It's not typical but I can see it happening after the pack left the BEP. The BEP label uses adhesive similar to what's used on a Post-It note, so it can be reused after removing. Someone prior to you must have intermingled two new packs. I'm guessing here.
Interesting Steve as I found this post below from back in 2010 on another forum that may relate to what you are saying about intermingling them after they leave the BEP (and perhaps why also there were some bills missing or different in a few places mentioned in other posts).
The BEP and the FRBs strap all their currency in units of 100 notes. Some banks have different standards that they use internally. A friend of mine used to be the vault teller at a branch of Wells Fargo...she said they strapped their $1's and $2's in units of $50, their $5's in units of $100, and everything else in units of $500. (So a strap of $100's was five notes!) Whenever the week's currency order came in from the FRB, it was her job to break up all the 100-note straps into straps of the sizes the bank wanted, before putting them into the vault. So I could never get notes in original BEP straps from her bank, except that she'd sometimes save me a BEP strap of $2's if she knew I was coming to get them that week.... If someone just walked in and asked for $100 in $2's, they'd get two straps of $50 each.
