thanks bw. i had been wondering if depositors would be allowed to access a box, wait, or lose it.
we are not talking much, but i opened one when we went out of town for xmas for a usb hard drive consisting of some 50k family pictures from over the years, including a 6 year project where I scanned old family photos and have some of one of the "work" camps that my father drove into as the German guards were literally still fleeing out the back of the camp. I think it was Bauchwald, or a name close, never forget him telling me about it. He rarely talked about the war, but had some poloroids of people still in the ovens of that camp and stacked like firewood outside. Once you see them you cannot unsee them.
Tens of thousands of songs are on that drive as well that i wanted kept off site.
There is a little cash, gold, and silver there as well, not too much, and i liked keeping it home in the pretty secure, (have to take the door frame out to remove,) safe. Since I stay armed 99+% of the time I am home I didn't worry much about it, but having it locked up down at the bank, is a hair of a load off, even though I literally sleep with a loaded .380 under my pillow at night.
I remember our retired SC police officer teaching us the consealed permit class saying, "it is better to die right there and then rather then let on of those low life's take control of your loved ones in front of you, and I believed his lifetime of work, that he knew what he was talking about, so the safe stays under armed guard here at home more than at the unarmed, as far as I can see, bank.
again, many thanks.