@ian_parenteau wrote: I tried to open a US Dollar Account with my local RBC branch here in Canada, explaining to them I required an RBC bank account from a branch with a USA based street address. In the application form a required field is "customer mailing address - United States addresses only". I did not have any USA street address, therefore the customer service agent could not continue or provide with an account from an RBC branch with a USA street address. Apparently this simple address requirement is part of the new USA/Canada Anti-Money Laundering (AML) banking requirements. Thank you for the suggestion. It would not have helped you opening a US bank account in Canada because if you have a Canadian Paypal account Paypal will NOT let you transfer US funds directly out of Paypal without first converting them to Canadian funds. Telll me that is not to their benfit !! At one point 4 years ago Ebay and Paypal had different exchange rates and I lost $50 getting paid on a 1600 item with the different exchange rate between Ebay & Paypal , and it was the same day, so the rate had not changed. I was so so mad, that I listed it in CDN funds but I had the 2 other items that were the same all on Ebay.com, so even though it said the amount in CDN, I still got paid in US and then the money was converted, on 3 iMacs I lost $150 with their **bleep**ed up exchange system, and it does not look like things have changed to much now !! Now I'm assuming they have at least sync'd Ebay and Paypal with the same conversion rate daily. The sad thruth is its a lose - lose that's why a Paypal admin had not responded to this topic !!
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