Safe deposit lockers are
used by people who want to protect important documents, expensive items like
heirloom jewellery, or emergency money reserves, among other things. Storage
lockers are most commonly located in bank vaults, and are rented to banking customers.
A safe deposit locker is usually protected by at least one lock, often more,
and is generally made of indestructible material.
There are a number
of features or characteristics which may vary in lockers. Because purchasers
will need to specify what they want in each of these when ordering, it is more
common to order a particular configuration rather than buy "off the
shelf" in a shop, although certain very common configurations can be found
in shops fairly easily. These features include:
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Bank size: This specifies the number of lockers wide a unit is. It does not
necessarily refer to the total number of compartments, but rather the number of
compartments wide the entire cabinet is. So a bank of three may contain six
lockers, for example, if they are two-tier lockers. In short, the total number
of lockers is the bank size multiplied by the number of tiers. Sometimes the
term "bay" is used instead of "bank", although
"bank" appears to be the more standard term; on other occasions,
"bay" refers to a single locker width within a bank, including all
tiers of locker directly on top of each other.
