Posted 12/06/2010 1:27 pm
More to look forward to on my next trip
I was out there in 2005 for my honeymoon but got screwed out of the Mint tour(on my birthday of all days
) by the post-9/11 security procedures. Until May 2005, one needed a Congressional pass complete with Fed background check to go on a Mint or BEP tour. I contacted my Senator months ahead of time...and nothing. I then called only to find out that the pass system was scrapped and they were not aware of a new system and the Mint's website still referred to the Congressional passes. My wife and I arrived in Denver and showed up at the Mint for a tour. I was then informed that tours were done on a first-come-first serve signup basis and that the entire week of tours was filled Monday morning by grade school kids that probably couldn't care less about the Mint
I was out there in 2005 for my honeymoon but got screwed out of the Mint tour(on my birthday of all days) by the post-9/11 security procedures. Until May 2005, one needed a Congressional pass complete with Fed background check to go on a Mint or BEP tour. I contacted my Senator months ahead of time...and nothing. I then called only to find out that the pass system was scrapped and they were not aware of a new system and the Mint's website still referred to the Congressional passes. My wife and I arrived in Denver and showed up at the Mint for a tour. I was then informed that tours were done on a first-come-first serve signup basis and that the entire week of tours was filled Monday morning by grade school kids that probably couldn't care less about the Mint
