An official of the Volksbank Bosnia branch presents a handful of newly-launched euro bank-notes in the capital Sarajevo in this file photo from January 3, 2002. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic MZ

BERLIN (Reuters) - Workers at a steel plant near Berlin found 100,000 euros ($128,500) in a safe that a bank had sent to be scrapped -- but they did the decent thing and gave it back.

An employee at Germany’s Postbank had failed to take out the cash before sending the safe to the scrapyard. Spokesman Ralf Palm blamed “the carelessness of an employee when a branch office moved in December.”