China News Service, Chengdu, May 19 (Du Cheng) Have you ever seen a 2-ton "coin hill" in your life?

From the morning of the 18th to the present, the three staff members of the Bank of Chengdu Cash Clearance Center worked overtime and were very busy. They had to carefully count and sort the 2 tons of coins. The "coin hill" in front of the snowflakes It's jaw-dropping!

  At 10:30 a.m. on the 18th, Mr. Yu, a citizen of Chengdu, carried coins weighing about 1.3 tons to the West Yu branch of Bank of Chengdu for storage.

In addition to the coins that were sent for exchange in the first two days, the customer sent a full 2 ​​tons of "coin hill" within a few days.

  It is understood that Mr. Yu has been engaged in the wholesale and retail industry of plastic bags in Chengdu Haibawang Market for six or seven years.

These coins are basically collected from downstream customers.

When he first received the coins, Mr. Yu didn't pay much attention, but later the coins were collected more and more, and more and more were deposited, which attracted his attention.

"With so many coins, it will be difficult to find a small bank branch, and it will cause trouble for others. After inquiring, I learned that Bank of Chengdu can solve this problem, so I came to consult and deal with it."

The bank staff is carefully counting the coins.

Photo by Zhang Xiaozhou

  According to Liang Xin, the head of savings in the business room of the Bank of Chengdu Xiyu Branch, this is the third batch of coins delivered by Mr. Yu. A total of 20 bags of coins were shipped in the first two times, with a total value of 100,000 yuan; the number of this batch exceeded the previous one. The total of the two times, there are 33 bags in total, with an estimated value of 165,000 yuan.

The total weight of all coins exceeds 2 tons after the three times.

  At the scene, after Mr. Yu signed a cash package collection agreement with Bank of Chengdu, the money transport truck transported the coins to the Bank of Chengdu Cash Sorting Center for processing.

The three staff of the center began to count the coins. After they picked the coins, they put them in the coin sorting and packaging machine for sorting and sorting, and finally the machine followed the standard of 50 coins per roll. For automatic packaging.

"These coins are expected to be counted before this Friday, and it will take a full 4 days to take care of them!" said the relevant staff of the center.

  According to the Business Management Department of the Chengdu Branch of the People's Bank of China, in the past, the bank counter had to spend a lot of manpower to check cash for customers in person, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it also affected other customers' business handling.

Since 2019, Chengdu has carried out a pilot program of the “temporary package deposit and exchange agreement” for cash, which has been fully implemented since last year.

  It is reported that the "temporary package deposit and exchange agreement" refers to the situation where the customer needs to centrally handle a large amount of cash deposits, and the business organization is unable to count the cash immediately or in person, after obtaining the customer's consent, the cash is temporarily sealed and the account is counted afterwards.

The whole process is carried out under monitoring. After the sorting center has counted the coins, the bank will notify the customer, and after the customer has no objection, the account will be posted or exchanged to the customer through the counter.

  Mr. Yu’s “massive” deposit business is the highest single amount since Chengdu’s trial of “temporary package deposit and exchange agreement” in 2019.

Mr. Yu was also very satisfied with the handling of this special business: “I thought it was a thorny and troublesome thing, but I didn’t expect the Bank of Chengdu to handle it so quickly.” (End)