On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:23:51 -0500, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.comm>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> > Curt Fischer wrote:
> >
> >> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> ...does it suck?
> >>>
> >>> I'm thinking of switching banks and it seems to be one of the
> >>> better options for what I want to do. Any recommendations or
> >>> horror stories?
> >>
> >> I just noticed this bank the other day.  They had a huger video
> >> screen outside their branch in Futako Tamagawa, with business news
> >> shows and sidebars, bottombars and topbars of financial indices
> >> flashing by, than any other bank I've seen.
> >>
> >> -- Curt Fischer
> >
> >
> > Is that a horror story or a recommendation?
> >
> > AFAIK there are no branches around here. Apparently I just open an
> > account by postal mail.
> >
>I'd personally avoid that. We had a Citibank account here in the US
>after moving from California to Tennessee, and Citibank has no branch 
>even close. There were many instances where we found ourselves wanting 
>to go to the bank and it was frustrating to not be able to.

In about 1986, when I moved to Martin TN to start school, I had in my
hot little hand a check drawn on the United States Treasury for my
monthly Naval Reserve activities.

I went from bank to bank to bank trying to cash the damned thing. It
was always the old "Do you have an account with us?" routine. Having
just arrived in town, I didn't have an account with any local bank.
When I finally found a bank that greeted me pleasantly and cashed my
check with no questions asked and no service fee, I opened an account
there.




--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College