I rarely go there & most times when I do, it's at holiday time to get jewelry to wear at special events. I have had my safety deposit box since 1988, when it was still United National Bank. I'm writing to tell you that if you or anyone you knows has a safety deposit box at the PNC bank on Park Avenue & 2nd Street, you need to go inventory and check your contents, especially if you have not visited the box in a long time. Many of you have been in this town forever and may have a safety deposit box at PNC downtown. Well, if you have a safe-deposit box at PNC, the large regional bank which bought out the locally-owned United National Bank a number of years ago, perhaps you had better rush over and check on it.Ī faithful reader sent the following disturbing email Tuesday. And the stairs down to the vault where the safe-deposit boxes were located were both inviting and a little intimidating.īut one thing was for sure, you felt your precious items - whether documents, jewelry or other valuables were above all SAFE.
Plainfield's United National Bank was the bank of choice for most who banked in Plainfield when I first moved here in 1983. Safe-deposit boxes are supposed to offer secure storage for valuables.