(edit title) Bank teller gives wrong info Depositing money Options

[Lilyyazz]

Hi everyone,

I'm just bit confuse on how things work in sweden. I got my bank card recently and today I went to the bank so I can deposit some money. However, the teller at the bank told me that I cannot bring cash and deposit, instead I have to go to some gas station where I will be able to find some machine and deposit the money. I said sure and I went to the gas station but there is no machine and the people at the gas station have no clue what I'm talking about. Is this normal, is there some other way to desposit cash rather than going to the bank?

[John.Smith]

Welcome to Sweden with its cashless banks!

[wondering]

Hey !

Some bank branches in Sweden do not handle cash.

Weird I know !

Best way to do it is to go to the bank's website and look up branches where they handle cash transactions. I always do it for Nordea.

Also FYI if you deposit money make sure to have a copy of your passport/driver's id card/Swedish ID card etc. Also if you deposit a lot of money then sometimes they ask you to show the source. So I had encashed money with Forex and had to show that receipt to the Nordea bank teller before they could accept it.

[Willy]

Cash? Nah, that's for developing countries. What will these weird foreigners bring next...checks?

[Flutterbye]

I really don't have a problem with change or progress but a bank branch that won't accept cash ?....has the world gone mad....and then to tell a customer to go to a petrol station to deposit cash ?...what next, need an operation so pop into the bakers LOL!
Must ask my Swedish friend who works in a bank about this.

[Johno]

Interesting - just Googled it and there is plenty to find.

Hos storbankerna, Handelsbanken undantagen, blir kontoren med kontanthantering allt färre. Hos till exempel Nordea är i dag drygt 100 av 300 kontor i Sverige kontantlösa. Enligt bankerna handlar det om att informera kunderna om varför man inte vill hantera kontanter och att bankerna hellre vill fokusera på rådgivning, snarare än på enklare banktjänster.

Tre av de fyra storbankerna drar drastiskt ned på antalet kontor där man kan ta ut och sätta in pengar över disk. På omkring 330 av landets 1 200 kontor kommer kontanthanteringen att ha försvunnit vid halvårsskiftet, visar DN:s genomgång.

And plenty are unhappy with this with stories like http://www.gp.se/nyheter/ledare/1.1032460-...e-med-kontanter

Not that new in the UK either. Banks take cash of all sorts but some building society branches will only handle notes, not coin. I guess I shall have to carry on storing my money under the mattress at home.

[gplusa]

Yup, my mother in law just emptied out her safety deposit box from her bank into our Handelsbanken account, for that reason.