Almost ready
December 12th, 2005No matter how much investigation, planning and preparation you do here, when you finally come to implementing the process in invariably goes wrong - today I had to prepare to send my money to the UK, I had a pile of paperwork and thought I was all prepared. Upon arrival at the bank I was told I didn’t have all the paperwork and there was no way I could access my Bank of China Shanghai account in Beijing, my only option was to go to Shanghai. After talking to a couple of collegues I found I should be able to perform a transfer if I was willing to pay a service fee of 1% capped at 50RMB, so returned to the Bank, and queued for an hour, and after a short arguement where I informed the same clerk of this fee he then quickly performed the transfer as requested. It seems you have to know the process back to front and be willing to tell officials about it to get anything done here.
Fingers crossed I should get my required paperwork tomorrow, and can do battle at the bank again to get the money back to the UK, I’ll be glad when its over!
Tomorrow is the day for the box collection of our chinese junk to be shipped to NZ, we seem to be shipping 2 t-chests of rubbish, I’m sure it could all go missing and no loss to us.