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How to donate money to a bankPosted by Joel Martinsen, June 29, 2007 1:20 PM
As part of its revamped commentary section, Southern Weekly moved its "Letters to the Editor" page to the business section and retitled it "Taxpayer's Voices: What's Annoying Me."
This week's gripe comes from Hong Er:
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Comments on How to donate money to a bank
I remember reading this a few days ago link. I'd be impressed if NFZM was passing off netizen comments at OEEEE as letters to the editor, but from a competing publication's website?
Particularly when 弘二 is the editor of said competing publication...
She is lucky she is not marrying. At least she has an option of saying “f%$# it, you can keep the f%$#ing 83 yuan”.
For any Chinese marrying anther Chinese, both need to travel back to one of their hometown because their "hukou" is there. I'll explain it in a plain example: Ming Yao and Zhang Yizi have decided to get married. They met each other in a fine city of Beijing and have being living together in Beijing for 2 years. When they go to their local marriage registration place they are turned away because neither of the couple was born in Beijing, therefore they have to either choose to go to some village in HaiNanDao, or a frozen lake town in Harbin in order to get married, because that's where their "hukou" is at.
Oh, they also can travel to a free country like Hong Kong and get married, a trip that would easily cost them 10k+ yuan, not a viable option as most Chinese can't afford it.
I'm rather certain that the said victim can get his money back by closing his account even at a branch which isn't his account opening branch. The lost card declaration could be filed on the spot and faxed to the account opening branch for record holding. A processing fee of the lost card, probably less than 87 yuan, will have to be deducted, according to the book.
The victim may have got a wrong consultation ;)
@Eugene: Suffered that myself this past December when I had to travel from Suzhou up to Dalian to get "married" because of my wife's hukou. The marriage certificate cost 12 RMB, the return flights for two people, plus additional transportation, etc... about 2,500 RMB... FUN!
You're right in your comparison that the banking system is built on a similar idea, and is equally stupid.
@Absurdfool: I wasn't able to. Perhaps some banks are getting better about this, but Bank of China, as recently as a year ago would not allow me to do this. I had to go to the branch I opened the account at to request a new card. Then several months ago when I wanted to close the account - same deal, had to go back to the main branch. I was able to withdraw the money and just let the bank rust with about 3 RMB in it (donated?).