What we move · Safe Deposit Box Contents
Moving a Safe Deposit Box to a Private Vault
Banks keep closing branches, shrinking box inventory, and in some cases exiting the safe deposit business entirely. When the letter arrives giving you sixty days, the contents have to go somewhere, and most people discover their homeowner policy will not cover it at home.
Tell us what, from where, and roughly when. No obligation, and no inventory list needed to start the conversation.
Unmarked
No livery, no logo, nothing that names the cargo
Two-person
Every movement. One never leaves the property
Signed
Chain of custody at every handoff, timestamped
1983
Operating the destination vault since
Why this is different
The problem worth solving
The awkward part of a bank box move is that nobody has ever seen inside it but you. There is no bank inventory, no valuation, and no record of what went in twenty years ago. If something goes missing between the branch and the destination, there is nothing to compare against. That gap is the whole risk, and it is solved before the drive starts, not after.
Procedure
How it is handled
- 01We meet you at the branch. You open the box; we do not.
- 02Contents are itemised and photographed by you, in the booth, before anything is sealed.
- 03The inventory is signed by you and by our two attendants, and you keep a copy on the spot.
- 04Sealed into a tamper-evident container in your presence, with the seal number written onto your copy.
- 05Direct to the vault. No other stops, no other collections on the same run.
- 06Seal number checked against your copy on arrival, and the container opened only if you ask.
What to expect on the day
Most bank box moves are one container and take an afternoon. The part that takes time is the inventory, and it is the part worth not rushing — an hour in the booth writing down what is actually there is the only record that will ever exist. Bring a phone with a good camera and a pen. If the box has not been opened in a decade, expect to find things you had forgotten, and expect that to change what you want to do with them.
The limit
Where we stop
We cannot open a box you are not on the signature card for, and we cannot attend without you. If you are acting for an estate, the bank will want to see your authority before we get anywhere near the booth.
Common questions
- Does the bank need to know?
- They do not need our permission or our details. You are removing your own property from your own box. We attend as the people carrying it out.
- Who makes the inventory?
- You do, in the booth, with our two attendants as witnesses. We do not want to be the only record of what was in your box, and neither should you.
- What if I want to keep the bank box too?
- That is common and sensible. Some clients move the irreplaceable items and leave the documents. There is no requirement to close the account.
- Can you handle several boxes at different branches?
- Yes, though each is treated as its own collection with its own inventory and its own seal. They are not consolidated in the vehicle.
Statewide
Routes we run
45–75 min
Brickell & Downtown Miami
High-rise collections, which means the loading dock and the service elevator decide the schedule rather than the traffic. Most Brickell towers require a certificate of insurance filed with building management days in advance and will only release the service lift in a booked window — we handle that paperwork, but it is why a Brickell collection is booked a week out and a house is not.
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50–80 min
Coral Gables
Older single-family houses on narrow, banyan-shaded streets with strict tree and parking rules. A vehicle cannot always get close to the door, so a Gables collection is planned around where we can legally stand, and that is worth a phone call before the day rather than a surprise on it.
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50–80 min
Coconut Grove
A mix of waterfront estates and 1920s houses, several of them with art collections that have never been condition-reported. The Grove sits low, and clients here move things out ahead of the season more often than anywhere else in Miami-Dade.
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60–90 min
Key Biscayne
One causeway on and off the island, with a toll and a single point of failure. When a storm is forecast the Rickenbacker is exactly where everyone is at once, so Key Biscayne is the one market where we insist on booking well ahead of a cone rather than during it.
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45–75 min
Miami Beach & Surfside
Causeway-dependent and, from Surfside north, largely mid-rise condominium. Since 2021 the building-access rules here have tightened considerably, and management offices are noticeably more careful about who is allowed a service lift — expect to be asked for documentation that a house never requires.
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30–50 min
Aventura
Dense high-rise on the Dade line and the shortest big-building run we make. Loading docks here are generally well organised and bookable, which makes Aventura one of the few tower markets where a same-week collection is realistic.
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Tell us what needs to move.
What, from where, and roughly when. You do not need an inventory to start the conversation, and if the job belongs with an armored carrier we will say so on the call.