Not much has happened over the last 2 days. Lots of eating, then preparing to eat again…
The highlight has been this mornings visit to do some
banking. First up was Itau, which was
effectively empty and everything was accomplished with minimum fuss. Then it was off to Banco Estado, which was a
nightmare. Nearly two and a half hours
to update some passbooks (who uses them these days anyway?), organise a card to
access said accounts from overseas, and close one account. Just to update the passbooks took 17
minutes! Then some more waiting, then a
long conversation with a so-called executive to print out a heap of documents
at a laser printer other than the one he had in his office, having to walk to
the other printer each time, then upstairs to wait to see the teller. That took 27 minutes in the queue and the
work was done inside 30 seconds.
Chile has many things going for it. The inefficient bureaucracy in the banking
sector used by the general public is NOT one of them…
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