A bank in the Boston area charged $150 for drilling a safe deposit box.I wonder what a locksmith charges a bank to do this. Presumably thedifference between those charges would cover the bank's costs ofinventorying and properly caring for the contents of the box.David Ames

The bank may also be charging for their time needed to deal with and supservise this (essentially, you're paying double service fees). And they may be charging a nuisance fee to encourage folks to be more careful with their keys next time. $150 strikes me as a reasonable amount for (if you'll pardon the phrase) "stupidity tax".

Charge for drilling safte deposit box?

Jan 07, 2005 Last reply: 21 years ago 22 Replies

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Leon Rowell 21 years ago

I opened 55 of them in two days without any problem (5700's, 4442's, and

175-05's, same vault). Another day to install the new locks and stamp the keys though.

Leon Rowell

dbs_ snipped-for-privacy@tanj.com wrote:

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Leon Rowell 21 years ago

He would want to make sure the friend or relative wasn't into anything illegal tho' ;^)

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Putyourspamhere 21 years ago

They can be. Third party warrants fo not require notification of the customer, and I'm not sure they did before the partiot act either.

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