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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
It will definitely depend on the region you're in.
From what people are saying here, safety deposit boxes are relatively commonplace in banks in the USA but in other countries they are not so common.
For example, it's only major banks in Australia that bother with maintaining such boxes and even then, they are usually only to be found in the major cities and from what I understand, in some cases they are nothing more than locked boxes within the vault rather than the separate deposit box rooms you see in the movies.
So in Australia, you are not going to find a bank in a large town with any safety deposit boxes. I have no idea about Europe, any members from that part of the world able to tell us about safety deposit boxes in Europe?
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I am not sure that I would say that they are common place in the US. My brother works for a bank and talking with him, only one of there branches has any. My bank also only has them in one branch, there main office, and thinking back last time I was in the bank it looked like they had maybe 25-30 boxes total.