Safety Deposit Boxes
NOTE: This should be back dated, but I’ve got no idea around what dates this happened. Oh well.
Who would have thought that safety deposit boxes would be so illogical. Melanie wanted to get a safety deposit box in order to keep some documents safe. Things like birth certificates and what not. Anyway, we go to the national to see about them because apparently you need to have an account at a bank before they will even offer you the possibility of getting a safety deposit box.
So we go in, and get served by probably the worst possible person to ask about safety deposit boxes. This became apparent when she laughed and told us that she had never done a safety deposit application before and was thinking about getting one for herself.
She fumbled her way through the application form, walking off every so often to ask someone else at the bank what a certain step meant or what to do next. After filling out the necessary forms, she tells us we can either have a safety deposit slip or a box. If we chose a box we would have to provide the actual box but for the slip the bank would provide it.
We chose slip, cause all Melanie had to put in it was some pieces of paper. The lady walks off and comes back with a slip designed to hold a folded up piece of paper. We ask if we could get a flat A4 / letter size slip and got told that they don’t have them. The folded paper size slip is the ‘standard’ size.
Is it just me or does this strike anyone else as odd? Why would people want a safety deposit slip for some pieces of paper and then want to fold the pieces of paper. Wouldn’t it seem logical that the paper they want to put away in a safety deposit box is likely something they don’t actually want bend / folded?
In the end we told the lady not to worry about it as we didn’t want to have to fold any pieces of paper we wanted to put away. We left the bank and came home where I rang some other banks and found out it was the same at all of them.
Wouldn’t an A4 size safety deposit slip make a heck of a lot more sense?
wednesday, 4 april, 2007 12:35 MAT
oh well, in the long run, paying a monthly fee for storing things in the bank is far more expensive than spending $150 on a fire and water proof safe. the safe only protects against those disasters though. against a thief, the bank is more secure, since the thief could just take the entire safe that we bought… but that’s not as big an issue in rockie than in some of the bigger cities.
even though it does seem a bit illogical, at least now we know and have a safe. i feel better.
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Just bury stuff in the back yard IMO.
Being a bank employee.. i have had some experience with safe deopist boxes and there secuity and lets just say.. i opted for the safe option and have it bolted down in the house… need i say more!!!!… one of the many wonders of the world…
OUR experience with safety deposit box with National Australia Bank……. We we needed it ….. it had been misplaced……. about 5 years later they contacted us to tell us that we had a safety deposit box…….
NEEDLESS TO SAY ……… NEVER AGAIN.
I worked with one of the big 4 banks for 6 years and i was appalled at the lack of security and the amount of unhappy customers due to so many idiotic mistakes by ill trained colleagues of mine. On leaving the bank, getting married and circumstances changing i looked around for an alternative for a safety deposit box.Luckily, i live in the Brisbane CBD and i found the Reserve Vault.
Well i am not going to say anything but, take the time to check them out.
It’s well worth it.
Oh, i have seen what look like A4 boxes and larger there also.
Phillip Adams
CBA does security packets that hold A4 paper.
In melbourne’s CBD, they have a great pricately owned facility which you can choose from 4 different sized boxes!! three of which will fit A4 pieces of paper nice and flat. It’s not owned by any banks or government facility. All the girls in the office know exactly what their talking about and can always answer any questions you have! No matter how silly they may seem. The team at Guardian Vaults are amazing – call them on 03 9606 0588