I suppose the Chase branch I went to didn’t have the fancy machines to verify. It was all manual. They said there’s lot of fraud so they only do it for members who have an account for over a year. They only let me make an appointment when they have extra staff because it takes a long time to process a stack of them. And they will only do so many at a time if it gets busy.

Paper savings bonds just not worth it. Stupid bond drives.