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Just curious what others are doing with their jars of coins. I used to
roll these annually and deposit them at the bank, but now my bank doesn't trust me in that regard. Thinks I might be trying to sell them a roll of washers. They did offer to take my coins, and send them out to a coin-counting company for a mere 1% of the value, then credit my account. That seems reasonable, at least compared to the supermarket rip-off machines. I wonder whether I can trust them, though. Maybe the coin-counting company takes 1% plus 1 fat handful. Last year I just decided to buy lunch with them until I'd used them up, but that gets tedious. *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. |
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On 3/9/2011 9:32 AM, John Grabowski wrote:
Just curious what others are doing with their jars of coins. I used to roll these annually and deposit them at the bank, but now my bank doesn't trust me in that regard. Thinks I might be trying to sell them a roll of washers. They did offer to take my coins, and send them out to a coin-counting company for a mere 1% of the value, then credit my account. That seems reasonable, at least compared to the supermarket rip-off machines. I wonder whether I can trust them, though. Maybe the coin-counting company takes 1% plus 1 fat handful. Last year I just decided to buy lunch with them until I'd used them up, but that gets tedious. *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. How do they know you are guessing and didn't count it first? |
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*Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting
machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. |
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"Tony Miklos" wrote in message ... On 3/9/2011 12:45 PM, wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:50:41 -0500, Tony Miklos wrote: On 3/9/2011 9:32 AM, John Grabowski wrote: Just curious what others are doing with their jars of coins. I used to roll these annually and deposit them at the bank, but now my bank doesn't trust me in that regard. Thinks I might be trying to sell them a roll of washers. They did offer to take my coins, and send them out to a coin-counting company for a mere 1% of the value, then credit my account. That seems reasonable, at least compared to the supermarket rip-off machines. I wonder whether I can trust them, though. Maybe the coin-counting company takes 1% plus 1 fat handful. Last year I just decided to buy lunch with them until I'd used them up, but that gets tedious. *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. How do they know you are guessing and didn't count it first? The operative words are "the exact amount that the machine counts". If you can perfectly count $100 in change and the machine matches that number I would be amazed. The real question would be, what keeps you from rat holing a handful of change and feeding it until you hit the magic number. The prize is probably a bank calendar or a pen anyway. You see, I used to count quarters for a living. In between repairing pinballs, jukes,... I would collect the money and count, sometimes by hand and sometimes with a portable coin counter machine. After making a $10 roll of quarters you wouldn't believe how easy it became to feel if it's short a quarter or has one extra. And well I've worked on quite a few coin counting machines, and they are accurate. Same with "cutting chips" when a dealer in Las Vegas. You can "cut" a stack of 20 chips every time 100 times in a row. That is what gets you from the dollar learners table to the better tables. I had five bars in Harris and Galveston County, Texas over the years. We had pool tables, juke boxes, cigarette machines, etc. in our bar, provided by the local "Dixie Mafia", although the Justice Department declared there was no such thing. (I wonder which state they were checking, but it wasn't Texas, and I wonder which state of consciousness they were operating under.) You can get pretty good at "cutting" a $10 stack of quarters in a short time. And if you're off a little, no matter. Our count went something like this: Pile all the money on the pool table. A small handful ($15 or so) in a cup kept at the register to keep the juke box playing, and to reimburse anyone who had ANY problem with a pool machine, etc. And to go back and put some quarters on the pool tables and pinballs for "fun money." A GREAT BIG handful split two ways: one for the route collector, and one the bar owner. Whatever you could scoop in two hands. What was left was divided by 2, and that's what went down on paper as "income" for the IRS. It was a sweet deal. Steve Heart surgery pending? Read up and prepare. http://cabgbypasssurgery.com www.heartsurgerysurvivalguide.com |
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anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank -- Best regards Han email address is invalid |
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"Han" wrote in message ... "EXT" wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank Right on. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
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-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "EXT" wrote in message anews.com... *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. |
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EXT wrote: "Han" wrote in message ... "EXT" wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank Right on. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hmm I thought Touch down in football. |
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aemeijers wrote:
Back in the stone age, when I was a kid and then college student in southern IN, every bank branch had a counting machine, and as long as you didn't come in when the tellers were swamped, would happily cash out coffee cans full of change. It was a rude shock when I was exiled to SW MI in 1980, and tried to do the same thing, and they looked at me like I was an alien. I did just sort them into jugs for several years, but after having my apartment robbed and several 5 gallon water jugs of pennies poured out into all my luggage so they could carry it (thankfully they missed the pyrex liters of dimes sitting on the shelf 2 feet away), I switched to rolling them. The pile is getting pretty heavy, though. I probably oughta wheel all the boxed rolls into the credit union down the street, and open another account to use for on-line. Just fill out the forms, hand them the boxes, and tell them I'll be back in a few days to learn the balance. Lately, though, I have been trying to spend it as fast as I accumulate it. Grab a fistfull out of the container on the kitchen counter as I leave the house, and if total at cash register is $x.75 or less, pay the odd amount with coins. Unless of course there is a line behind me- people do get cranky. Yeah, on principle, I won't pay a premium to cash out coins. If I never get around to cashing them out, I'll leave them to whoever my youngest living relative is. You need a couple of old relatives in retirement homes, to whom you can supply bingo change. |
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I saw a program about companies that cleaned enormous amounts of coins.
Fountains, grottos, wishing wells, etc. It was mentioned that this company, the one you see in lobbies of grocery stores, etc, (the owner, that is) has the largest coin collection in the world. There are automatic scanners that will kick out any foreign or old or unusual coin, and can be programmed to recognize any coin to be pulled out of the stream. Steve |
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"EXT" wrote in
anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. The Daring - just the Dufas is missing :-) |
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On 3/10/2011 5:20 PM, Red Green wrote:
wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. The Daring - just the Dufas is missing :-) Are you picking on me? :-( TDD |
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The Daring Dufas wrote in news:ilbp9u$g30$1
@news.eternal-september.org: On 3/10/2011 5:20 PM, Red Green wrote: wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. The Daring - just the Dufas is missing :-) Are you picking on me? :-( He needs to take more anti-bullying classes. -- Tegger |
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On 3/10/2011 10:34 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:45:26 -0500, Tony Miklos wrote: On 3/9/2011 12:45 PM, wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:50:41 -0500, Tony Miklos wrote: On 3/9/2011 9:32 AM, John Grabowski wrote: Just curious what others are doing with their jars of coins. I used to roll these annually and deposit them at the bank, but now my bank doesn't trust me in that regard. Thinks I might be trying to sell them a roll of washers. They did offer to take my coins, and send them out to a coin-counting company for a mere 1% of the value, then credit my account. That seems reasonable, at least compared to the supermarket rip-off machines. I wonder whether I can trust them, though. Maybe the coin-counting company takes 1% plus 1 fat handful. Last year I just decided to buy lunch with them until I'd used them up, but that gets tedious. *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. How do they know you are guessing and didn't count it first? The operative words are "the exact amount that the machine counts". If you can perfectly count $100 in change and the machine matches that number I would be amazed. The real question would be, what keeps you from rat holing a handful of change and feeding it until you hit the magic number. The prize is probably a bank calendar or a pen anyway. You see, I used to count quarters for a living. In between repairing pinballs, jukes,... I would collect the money and count, sometimes by hand and sometimes with a portable coin counter machine. After making a $10 roll of quarters you wouldn't believe how easy it became to feel if it's short a quarter or has one extra. And well I've worked on quite a few coin counting machines, and they are accurate. The problem is, the machine may reject a few coins and screw up your perfect count. Then they will be right there in the coin return. |
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On 3/10/2011 11:42 AM, Steve B wrote:
I saw a program about companies that cleaned enormous amounts of coins. Fountains, grottos, wishing wells, etc. It was mentioned that this company, the one you see in lobbies of grocery stores, etc, (the owner, that is) has the largest coin collection in the world. There are automatic scanners that will kick out any foreign or old or unusual coin, and can be programmed to recognize any coin to be pulled out of the stream. Steve Great idea! Long ago I did think of a penny machine that sorted the mostly copper ones from the newer ones, but the machine was probably made before the new pennies even came out. In most older 25 cent coin acceptors/rejectors there is a magnet to catch canadian coins. What most don't know is that it also has another more important purpose. A coin with a lot of copper in it will not stick to the magnet, but it will slow it down as it rolls past! Slugs made of pot metal or other stuff not copper will roll faster past the magnet, and if properly adjusted, it will reject them. |
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On 3/10/2011 6:23 PM, Tegger wrote:
The Daring wrote in news:ilbp9u$g30$1 @news.eternal-september.org: On 3/10/2011 5:20 PM, Red Green wrote: wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. The Daring - just the Dufas is missing :-) Are you picking on me? :-( He needs to take more anti-bullying classes. My feelings on the subject can be summed up in one of my favorite songs. ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmX1xBWAAI TDD |
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On Mar 9, 6:45*pm, Tony Miklos wrote:
On 3/9/2011 12:45 PM, wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:50:41 -0500, Tony Miklos *wrote: On 3/9/2011 9:32 AM, John Grabowski wrote: Just curious what others are doing with their jars of coins. I used to roll these annually and deposit them at the bank, but now my bank doesn't trust me in that regard. Thinks I might be trying to sell them a roll of washers. They did offer to take my coins, and send them out to a coin-counting company for a mere 1% of the value, then credit my account. That seems reasonable, at least compared to the supermarket rip-off machines. I wonder whether I can trust them, though. Maybe the coin-counting company takes 1% plus 1 fat handful. Last year I just decided to buy lunch with them until I'd used them up, but that gets tedious. *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. How do they know you are guessing and didn't count it first? The operative words are "the exact amount that the machine counts". If you can perfectly count $100 in change and the machine matches that number I would be amazed. The real question would be, what keeps you from rat holing a handful of change and feeding it until you hit the magic number. The prize is probably a bank calendar or a pen anyway. You see, I used to count quarters for a living. *In between repairing pinballs, jukes,... *I would collect the money and count, sometimes by hand and sometimes with a portable coin counter machine. *After making a $10 roll of quarters you wouldn't believe how easy it became to feel if it's short a quarter or has one extra. *And well I've worked on quite a few coin counting machines, and they are accurate.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Tony, I used to do that too for 7 years. Know what you mean. Never seen a counting machine be inaccurate. If they were broke they just didnt work at all. The bank finally got where they would accept bagged coins, that made life a little easier for me.. I dont know how they verified the count. I think they weighed them. Jimmie |
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Does anyone see the irony? The Chicago Thug (du jour) is now
promoting anti bullying programs? -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Tegger" wrote in message ... Are you picking on me? :-( He needs to take more anti-bullying classes. -- Tegger |
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In article , Tony Miklos wrote:
On 3/10/2011 11:42 AM, Steve B wrote: I saw a program about companies that cleaned enormous amounts of coins. Fountains, grottos, wishing wells, etc. It was mentioned that this company, the one you see in lobbies of grocery stores, etc, (the owner, that is) has the largest coin collection in the world. There are automatic scanners that will kick out any foreign or old or unusual coin, and can be programmed to recognize any coin to be pulled out of the stream. Steve Great idea! Long ago I did think of a penny machine that sorted the mostly copper ones from the newer ones, but the machine was probably made before the new pennies even came out. In most older 25 cent coin acceptors/rejectors there is a magnet to catch canadian coins. What most don't know is that it also has another more important purpose. A coin with a lot of copper in it will not stick to the magnet, but it will slow it down as it rolls past! Slugs made of pot metal or other stuff not copper will roll faster past the magnet, and if properly adjusted, it will reject them. Canadian quarters and dimes 1965 and older are mostly silver, and will be accepted by such a contraption. -- - Don Klipstein ) |
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:27:13 -0500, "EXT"
wrote: "Han" wrote in message ... "EXT" wrote in anews.com: *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank Right on. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now TD Canada Trust, which was formed by the merger od Toronto Dominion Bank and Canada Trust - the latter which resulted from the merger of Waterloo Trust and Huron and Erie Trust(or Canada Trust, Huron and Erie) of Waterloo Ontario and London Ontario, respectively. |
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On Mar 10, 8:36*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:27:13 -0500, "EXT" wrote: "Han" wrote in message ... "EXT" wrote in ctanews.com: *Time for a new bank. *TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. *The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. *If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank Right on. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now TD Canada Trust, which was formed by the merger od Toronto Dominion Bank and Canada Trust - the latter which resulted from the merger of Waterloo Trust and Huron and Erie Trust(or Canada Trust, Huron and Erie) of Waterloo Ontario and London Ontario, respectively.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Our US banks go thru the same idiocy of successors. Our biggest bank in Naperville, IL, has had at least 4 different names in the past 30 years, we still call it by the original name from 45 years ago when we want to let an old-timer know something as it is a local landmark on the corner of the biggest downtown intersection. |
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On 3/10/2011 9:33 PM, Don Klipstein wrote:
In , Tony Miklos wrote: On 3/10/2011 11:42 AM, Steve B wrote: I saw a program about companies that cleaned enormous amounts of coins. Fountains, grottos, wishing wells, etc. It was mentioned that this company, the one you see in lobbies of grocery stores, etc, (the owner, that is) has the largest coin collection in the world. There are automatic scanners that will kick out any foreign or old or unusual coin, and can be programmed to recognize any coin to be pulled out of the stream. Steve Great idea! Long ago I did think of a penny machine that sorted the mostly copper ones from the newer ones, but the machine was probably made before the new pennies even came out. In most older 25 cent coin acceptors/rejectors there is a magnet to catch canadian coins. What most don't know is that it also has another more important purpose. A coin with a lot of copper in it will not stick to the magnet, but it will slow it down as it rolls past! Slugs made of pot metal or other stuff not copper will roll faster past the magnet, and if properly adjusted, it will reject them. Canadian quarters and dimes 1965 and older are mostly silver, and will be accepted by such a contraption. Well yes! Who would turn down silver!? Now wait, actually it would reject an all silver quarter if properly adjusted. I don't know how much copper it takes to work. |
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"EXT" wrote in message anews.com... *Time for a new bank. TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. ------------------- I'm a TD customer in Canada and I'll vouch about them being a good customer service oriented bank. Their chequing fees are higher than most BUT their investing services, tax planning, credit departments are helpful and friendly. They have the friendliest tellers who actually work to answer questions and try to find the best appointment times for their experts. They manage some of the lowest cost market etf funds in Canada. I do all my retirement and taxable investing thru them now. Great websites to purchase and sell equities and funds. prompt tax receipts in the mail. Prompt confirmations of transactions from investments. I also have my house and life insurance with them. Reasonable rates, especially for house insurance. I really hope they give great service in the US as I get here. They really want to grow along the east coast. They merged their Waterhouse division into Ameritrade. Hope it works well for them. |
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The Daring Dufas wrote in
: My feelings on the subject can be summed up in one of my favorite songs. ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmX1xBWAAI Oh, how perfectly awful! Where's the empathy? the inclusiveness? Do you not embrace these values? Character matters. Courage is doing the right thing even when nobody's looking. Don't wait for your ship to come in, row out to meet it. It's better to help somebody up than to put them down... You know the drill. I have something much more schoolteacher-friendly than your link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6ggRByE8g Tegger snickers and runs off -- Tegger |
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On 3/11/2011 7:11 PM, Tegger wrote:
The Daring wrote in : My feelings on the subject can be summed up in one of my favorite songs. ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmX1xBWAAI Oh, how perfectly awful! Where's the empathy? the inclusiveness? Do you not embrace these values? Character matters. Courage is doing the right thing even when nobody's looking. Don't wait for your ship to come in, row out to meet it. It's better to help somebody up than to put them down... You know the drill. I have something much more schoolteacher-friendly than your link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6ggRByE8g Tegger snickers and runs off Those are Canadians singing that song, they must be from Calgary or Alberta. ^_^ TDD |
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The Daring Dufas wrote in
: On 3/11/2011 7:11 PM, Tegger wrote: I have something much more schoolteacher-friendly than your link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6ggRByE8g Tegger snickers and runs off Those are Canadians singing that song, they must be from Calgary or Alberta. ^_^ How can you tell? -- Tegger |
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In article ,
Tegger wrote: The Daring Dufas wrote in : On 3/11/2011 7:11 PM, Tegger wrote: I have something much more schoolteacher-friendly than your link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX6ggRByE8g Tegger snickers and runs off Those are Canadians singing that song, they must be from Calgary or Alberta. ^_^ How can you tell? "and I leave my entire vast estate of 10 million dollars to the people of Calgery so they can afford to move somewhere decent!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo -- "Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on." ---PJ O'Rourke |
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:56:25 +0000 (UTC), (Don
Klipstein) wrote: In , hr(bob) wrote: SNIP example of bank mergers Our US banks go thru the same idiocy of successors. Our biggest bank in Naperville, IL, has had at least 4 different names in the past 30 years, we still call it by the original name from 45 years ago when we want to let an old-timer know something as it is a local landmark on the corner of the biggest downtown intersection. First Pennsylvania Bank was taken over by Corestates bank, which was taken over by First Union Bank, which was taken over by Wachovia, which was taken over by Wells Fargo. This amounts to 5 different names in the past 25 years, maybe within a 20 year period. The USA has a plethora of small "regional banks" , many of which are absorbed by other larger "regional" or "state" banks - which in turn are absorbed by the "mega-banks" By the way, where did they ever come up with "fifth/third" bank? Was it on the corner of fifth and third in some rinky-dink town., or what???? |
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:56:06 -0500, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:56:25 +0000 (UTC), (Don Klipstein) wrote: In , hr(bob) wrote: SNIP example of bank mergers Our US banks go thru the same idiocy of successors. Our biggest bank in Naperville, IL, has had at least 4 different names in the past 30 years, we still call it by the original name from 45 years ago when we want to let an old-timer know something as it is a local landmark on the corner of the biggest downtown intersection. First Pennsylvania Bank was taken over by Corestates bank, which was taken over by First Union Bank, which was taken over by Wachovia, which was taken over by Wells Fargo. This amounts to 5 different names in the past 25 years, maybe within a 20 year period. The USA has a plethora of small "regional banks" , many of which are absorbed by other larger "regional" or "state" banks - which in turn are absorbed by the "mega-banks" By the way, where did they ever come up with "fifth/third" bank? Was it on the corner of fifth and third in some rinky-dink town., or what???? Merger of the Fifth and the Third National Banks. I got a laugh out of the MT Bank, in upstate NY, too. |
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:53:38 -0500, wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:31:46 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) " wrote: On Mar 10, 8:36*pm, wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 21:27:13 -0500, "EXT" wrote: "Han" wrote in message ... "EXT" wrote in ctanews.com: *Time for a new bank. *TD Ameritrade bank in NJ has free coin counting machines for customers and non-customers. *The machine spits out a ticket which you give to the teller and he/she gives you cash. No charge. *If you guess the exact amount that the machine counts they give you a prize. Just wanted to know if anyone in the US knows what the "TD" in TD Ameritrade stands for. Canadians are disqualified from answering. Toronto Dominion Bank Right on. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now TD Canada Trust, which was formed by the merger od Toronto Dominion Bank and Canada Trust - the latter which resulted from the merger of Waterloo Trust and Huron and Erie Trust(or Canada Trust, Huron and Erie) of Waterloo Ontario and London Ontario, respectively.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Our US banks go thru the same idiocy of successors. Our biggest bank in Naperville, IL, has had at least 4 different names in the past 30 years, we still call it by the original name from 45 years ago when we want to let an old-timer know something as it is a local landmark on the corner of the biggest downtown intersection. Unlike the American banking system, BANKS in Canada are regulated. There are also trust companies, which are not chartered banks, and credit unions. So far, there is no "unlike" here at all. Trust companies merge and change names fairly often. Credit unions likewize. VERY occaisionally, a "chartered bank" will absorb or merge with a trust company - and this is what happened in the case of TD Canada Trust. |
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