Ummm, what a convenient box. Have you ever seen it before?
I saw this unfamiliar machine in Manilla's airport. And that was what I want!
It said my left over local currency can be transferred into a PayPal deposit, iTunes credit, Skype credit and so forth (anyway many kinds).
By using this, it seems I don't need to visit currency exchange or be concerned about remaining small bills. I have several countries' small bills because they are not accepted with in Japanese exchange shops.
Isn't it futuristic?
What I was amazed was this kind of machine in an airport, although exchange stores must have been against for it.
I was a bit concerned about the commission fee, but just I tried to transfer all my money, 1000PHP, to PayPal but the message "'it's unavailable in your country"' truly disappointed me.
Japan fell behind...
(PayPal is not unavailable but iTunes and
Skype are okay)
Although it is invalid in my country, I feel that currency exchange services might disappear in the near future.
Instead, that kind of service could be used as an international bank to withdraw and deposit money. There might be no need to bring much cash abroad, I hope.
Thanks to Zahnsan's revision
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I checked the service later and it turned
out it's called TravelersBox, and they have Japanese brunch but haven't started
the service. It seems they've been running less than 10 machines on the globe,
mainly in Middle East. The Philippines is the only country they conduct service
in Asia as of now. The company was founded in 2012, based in Turkey (wow!).
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