Hi Shadayjj -
Welcome to the Forums! Happy to try and address your questions here!
We don't really have a lot of details on the card when it arrives, so I'd be unable to tell you for sure that it's activated when it arrives or not. I'm going to guess that you would need to go on the site to activate it or call a number, just as a standard safety step - we wouldn't want an already active and working card sent through the mail, now would we? 🙂
As far as cancelling, you can do that at any time. If you do so before the next monthly fee is due, then that should stop any future fees from being assessed. But there would be no additional fee for activating the permanent card. And the biggest difference between the temporary card and the permanent one - besides your name being on it - is that the permanent card allows for instant transfers to the card. The temporary card requires 2-3 business days for a PayPal balance to be sent to the card, for you to then use for purchases. The permanent card allows a more instant version, so you can send the money over and use it pretty much right away!
Finally, no, you would not need a bank account to use the permanent card. You would need to load the card though, be it through a PayPal balance or via one of our in store options. More information on that can be found on the site.
Hope that helps! Please let us know if there are any other questions we can assist with!
- Andy
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