Friday, Already?
Wow. Its hard to believe today is Friday. I guess the heavy workload and jetlag made the week a bit of a blur. Sadly, I have a number of things that I have to work on this weekend (work-related) such as: (a) consolidating Q&As associated with our recent Business Practices Reviews (covered 1,300 people), and (b) updating a company-wide Business Continuity Plan overview. Sadly, these things need to be done this weekend as I have a business visitor from Houston that arrives on Saturday and departs Friday – and this work has to be done by Monday (for item a) and Friday (for item b).
Just received an email from Norma, my sister, seems a recent transfer to Josh & Liz did not go through due to difference in names on sending and receiving account. I find that very interesting as BoA has never rejected my transfer requests before. I can do Bill Paying thru BoA, but this is no more than a paper check …. thus, I have been dumbed down to “snail mail” to get money to the family. This will adversely impact my ability to quickly get college money to Chris, Paul, Chely.
What is ironic about all this, is how easy it is to do electronic transfers and electronic bill paying in Indonesia. While Indonesia is far from being a cashless society, it rarely uses checks. Thus, the primary payment mode for “bills” is transfers. I can go into my Indonesia Bank account and easily transfer money to any individual … pay phone bills, electricity, water, internet. I can buy pre-paid phone cards that instantly debit my phone account … I can even easily buy plane tickets. Guess the generic definition of a “1st World Country” and “Emerging Country” doesn’t work very well.
I think I will close this blog. Sorry it is short, but I now need to address some “banking issues” by getting mailing addresses for everybody … so I can do “Bill Payment” without bothering Norma all the time.
Ciao Ciao
Bill, you might want to try the bank we use out of San Antonio. USAA Federal Savings Bank, they are afflitated with our insurance company which is only for officers of the military, however the bank is open to the public. They are used to dealing with military overseas and handle everything very well. We went with them when we moved to Australia in 1989 and have never moved from there. We now have a local account for paying local bills in Colorado but use USAA for all other transactions. They refund ATM surchages up to a set limit a month since they have only one bank. We have found them extremely helpful when we are overseas. Had someone access our credit card number while we were in Colombia and they stopped payments until they talked to us but didn’t refuse any. Sent new cards by FEDEX to us in Colombia. Both boys use them too as little to no bank charges compared to other banks.