WTF!?! safe deposit boxes not safe?
Hey,
I am not sure where to go about this right now. My entire family is freaking out since we have no idea whats going on.
For the past few years, my mom, my grandmother, my aunt and I have had safe deposit boxes to keep various things, including emergency cash. Our boxes are at different banks though.
Last week my grandmother went to her box to bring home some things from my dad's collection that he had left her before moving oversees. To her astonishment, she felt that something was missing. She paniced and brought everything from the box home. My aunt just thought she was wrong since my grandmother is getting old and it's possible she just forgot. After they talked to my mom, my mom agreed that it's a possibility that something was missing since she remembered a particular item from that collection that wasn't accounted for. Since my dad is hard to get in contact with, it may a few days from now before they get a confirmation. My dad spent most of his life to be able to acquire these timepeices and it's really freaking us out.
Afew days ago, my mom went to her safe deposit box, in another bank, to get her passport to prepare for summer. She had an emergency stash of money in there that she kept track of on little notes at home. When she opened the box to get her stuff, she also checked on the money. About 20% of it was missing from an envolope which had a very easy to remember amount (for our family anyways). Also the money was not the way she had remembered. Her system for storing cashed included a special way they are stored in the envolope and it wasn't there. She thought that it was funny, but also thought that maybe she had removed some for use awhile ago and forgot to note it and put it back in her special way.
Well, today I went to my box with my mom to put some paperwork into it and to check on my stash. Everything looked fine, until we got home to check on the notes. There were suppose to be two envolopes of money in my box, not one. Also there was suppose to be an inventory list in one of the envolopes.
My aunt hasn't checked her box recently, but we are going to check it ASAP to see if anything is wrong there aswell. Infact, she may have checked it already while I am typing this.
All of our boxes are at different banks. My mom and I haven't touched our box for almost 6 months and my grandmother hasn't touched her's for a year. When ever we enter to box, we check to make sure that it's our signatures for the previous entries. I have very distinct and a hard to reproduce signature. All the keys to our boxes have been accounted for so no missing keys.
We haven't gone straight to the bank yet since we have no idea if we should go to the branches where the boxes are at or go higher up. Also my box and my mom's box had a policy against keeping cash in to so we are not sure if they may try to get us on that. Though I assume that if anything is missing from our boxes, its a bigger issue then keeping cash in it.
This is just all too weird. Three boxes with missing items and they are all owned by members of the same family? Has anything like this every happened before? Could the bank employees be in on it? We don't have enemies with this capability or any enemies at all.
Sounds crazy, but could the Feds be doing this? They are the only ones I can see with this power.
My grandmother almost had a heartattack and my aunt, my mom and I are confused and freaked out!
Thanks,
Robert
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