New Bank

This week is our first week as customers of PNC Bank. We started banking with MidAmerica Savings in 1985. It changed to MidAmerica Bank back in the 80s. A few years ago it was purchased by National City bank. I told you about our experiences with that transition.

PNC acquired National City about 18 months ago. A week ago yesterday all branches were closed and reopened on Monday as PNC.

Unlike before, all of our accounts have new numbers. We've been told we can use up our supply of old checks. This will take us better than 2 years. It's cheaper to order 3 boxes of checks at one time than one box per year.

I have one problem with PNC so far. We have our Visa credit card through the bank and usually pay on line via a transfer of funds. I believe we can still do that but we can not do that using a date in the future. I have to wait until the day I want to pay the bill and then go on line and transfer funds.

PNC offers a bill pay feature and they say it's free but trying to set up the Visa bill didn't make me feel confident. I think I'll go visit my local banker this week. I have other questions about bank cards we received.

'til later