AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Banks now offer small-business customers courier service for deposit drop-offs
The trip to the bank used to be part of Larry King's routine every day, and not an altogether welcome one.
King, co-owner of Columbus-based Capital Lighting Inc., a lighting retailer and wholesaler with 52 employees, says he used to spend hours each week on bank runs.
"Whether you did the drive-through or walked in, it still was a half-hour, 45 minutes every day trying to get to the bank," he says. "... I used to make daily plans to know to run in this direction and that direction to make sure I could get yesterday's deposit dropped off.
"Then, of course, you've got to hang on to the receipt while you're out running around."
He solved the problem by signing up to have a bank come to him, via a courier service -- …