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.

John W.