Comment by zeitg3ist
7 years ago
You’re joking, but I used to have a bank account at Poste Italiane (the Italian national post service... don’t ask). You couldn’t access anything on the website, not even your balance, between 22 and 6. We’re talking about 2010. Not sure if things have evolved since then (I closed my account soon after that, and it was an odyssey... but that’s another story).
The Canada Revenue Agency wouldn't accept my tax filing until after 6am. This year.
Maybe 2 or 3 years ago I had the IRS tell me to come back during business hours as well to download a form.
Do tell us about the odyssey!
Sorry, I just read the reply :)
If you're still interested, basically I opened my Poste account in the city where I lived as a student at the time. I then graduated and moved elsewhere, but when my debit card expired, I got a letter that told me to pick up my new one... in the old city's office, hours away from my home. There was no way I was going to lose a day just to go there, pick up the card and go back, so I decided to just open a bank account somewhere else. But then I couldn't move my money there because the Poste debit card acts as an authentication device (you swipe it into the OTP device that Poste provides), both on the website and in person, so I couldn't transfer or withdraw my money, or even close my account at an office. I had to spend money to send a _raccomandata_ and wait 30 days for my money to finally be transferred to my new account. Fun times.
Poste Italiane (the Italian national post service... don’t ask)
Still to this day the single bank that never incurred any fees for using their ATMs as a foreigner - at least that's my experience.