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Bank box day: how to move a box of metal without a parade
Call the shop. Call the bank. Do not do this on speaker in the lobby. Two trips beat one horror story.
Safe-deposit day is when people get sloppy. They talk in the lobby. They carry a see-through bag. They drive to three shops with the whole box on the seat.
A calmer script
- Photograph in the box room if the bank allows
- Sort into bullion / jewelry / maybe
- Call the shop
- Take what you are selling today, not the family history you are keeping
- ID and papers if it is an estate. POA. Estates
Transport. Two people is fine. A parade is not.
If the bank box is a surprise (“we found this after dad died”), do not clean it in the parking lot. Don’t clean.
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